| 单词 | depth |
| 释义 | depth (once / 116 pages) n Depth is the measure of how deep something goes. The swimming pool has a depth of six feet. The well has an unknown depth. People can be deep as well—you know by looking at some people that they have depth. Depth goes with other measure words that end in "th." Length is how long something is. Breadth is how wide or broad. The expression "plumb the depths" means to take a measure of how deep something goes. Depth also can mean deepness—your English teacher might instruct you to write papers with depth. WORD FAMILYdepth: depths+/deep: deepen, deepest, deeply, deepness, deeps, depth/deepen: deepened, deepening, deepens/deepening: deepenings/deeply: deeper USAGE EXAMPLESCollege scout teams consist of scholarship players who are buried on the depth chart and walk-ons who volunteer to be tackling dummies. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Prior to his injury, Ross split time between receiver and cornerback due to depth concerns. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) It’s easy to imagine that she’s walking into the murky depths, never to return. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the extent downward or backward or inward the depth of the water depth of a shelf depth of a closet Syn|Hypo|Hyper deepness deepness, profoundness, profundity the quality of being physically deep draft, draughtthe depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) penetrationthe depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) soundinga measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line shallownessthe quality of lacking physical depth bottomlessnessthe property of being very deep; without limit superficialityshallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something extent the distance or area or volume over which something extends 2n the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas Syn|Hyper astuteness, deepness, profoundness, profundity sapience, wisdom ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight 3n the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense the depth of his breathing "the depth of his sighs," "the depth of his emotion Hyper attribute an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity 4n degree of psychological or intellectual profundity Hypo|Hyper profoundness, profundity intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc shallowness, superficialitylack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling glibness, slicknessa kind of fluent easy superficiality sciolismpretentious superficiality of knowledge degree, grade, level a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality 5n (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part from the depths of darkest Africa signals received from the depths of space Hypo|Hyper back of beyond a very remote and inaccessible place part, region the extended spatial location of something 6n (usually plural) a low moral state he had sunk to the depths of addiction Hyper abasement, abjection, degradation a low or downcast state |
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