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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPTH, n.
1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards. The depth of a river may be ten feet. The depth of the ocean is unfathomable. The depth of a wound may be an inch. In a vertical direction, depth is opposed to highth.
2. A deep place.
3. The sea, the ocean.
The depth closed me round about. JoNahum 2.
4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.
When he set a compass on the face of the depth. Proverbs 8.
5. The middle or highth of a season, as the depth of winter; or the middle, the darkest or stillest part, as the depth of night; or the inner part, a part remote from the border, as the depth of a wood or forest.
6. Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as the depth of a science.
7. Unsearchableness; infinity.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. Romans 11.
8. The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.
9. Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as depth of understanding; depth of skill.
10. The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear; as a depth of three men or six men.
11. Depth of a sail, the extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech of a stay-sail or boom-sail.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" [syn: depth, deepness]
2: degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
3: (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"
4: (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
5: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness]
6: 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"

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural depths) Etymology: Middle English, from dep deep Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) a deep place in a body of water <fish living at great depths> (2) a part that is far from the outside or surface <the depths of the woods> (3) abyss 2 b. (1) a profound or intense state (as of thought or feeling) <the depths of misery>; also a reprehensibly low condition <hadn't realized that standards had fallen to such depths> (2) the middle of a time (as winter) (3) the worst part 2. a. the perpendicular measurement downward from a surface b. the direct linear measurement from front to back 3. the quality of being deep 4. the degree of intensity <depth of a color>; also the quality of being profound (as in insight) or full (as of knowledge) 5. the quality or state of being complete or thorough <a study will be made in depth> 6. a large number of good players <a team that lacks depth> • depthless adjective

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) In maritime/hydrographic use, the vertical distance from the plane of the hydrographic datum to the bed of the sea, lake, or river.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a deepness (the depth is not great at the edge). b the measurement from the top down, from the surface inwards, or from the front to the back (depth of the drawer is 12 inches). 2 difficulty; abstruseness. 3 a sagacity; wisdom. b intensity of emotion etc. (the poem has little depth). 4 an intensity of colour, darkness, etc. 5 (in pl.) a deep water, a deep place; an abyss. b a low, depressed state. c the lowest or inmost part (the depths of the country). 6 the middle (in the depth of winter). Phrases and idioms: depth-bomb (or -charge) a bomb capable of exploding under water, esp. for dropping on a submerged submarine etc. depth psychology psychoanalysis to reveal hidden motives etc. in depth comprehensively, thoroughly, or profoundly. in-depth adj. thorough; done in depth. out of one's depth 1 in water over one's head. 2 engaged in a task or on a subject too difficult for one. Etymology: ME (as DEEP, -TH(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depth Depth, n. (A["e]ronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depth Depth (s[e^]pth), n. [From Deep; akin to D. diepte, Icel. d[=y]pt, d[=y]p[eth], Goth. diupi[thorn]a.] 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops. 2. Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color. Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height. --Keble. 3. Lowness; as, depth of sound. 4. That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter. From you unclouded depth above. --Keble. The depth closed me round about. --Jonah ii. 5. 5. (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. 6. (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together. [R.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(depths) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The depth of something such as a river or hole is the distance downwards from its top surface, or between its upper and lower surfaces. The smaller lake ranges from five to fourteen feet in depth... The depth of the shaft is 520 yards... They were detected at depths of more than a kilometre in the sea. N-VAR: oft amount in N, with poss, N of amount 2. The depth of something such as a cupboard or drawer is the distance between its front surface and its back. N-VAR: oft amount in N, with poss, N of amount 3. If an emotion is very strongly or intensely felt, you can talk about its depth. I am well aware of the depth of feeling that exists in Londonderry... = strength N-VAR: usu N of n 4. The depth of a situation is its extent and seriousness. The country's leadership had underestimated the depth of the crisis. = severity N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n 5. The depth of someone's knowledge is the great amount that they know. We felt at home with her and were impressed with the depth of her knowledge... N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n 6. If you say that someone or something has depth, you mean that they have serious and interesting qualities which are not immediately obvious and which you have to think about carefully before you can fully understand them. His music lacks depth... N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl 7. The depths are places that are a long way below the surface of the sea or earth. (LITERARY) The ship vanished into the depths. N-PLURAL: the N 8. If you talk about the depths of an area, you mean the parts of it which are very far from the edge. ...the depths of the countryside... N-PLURAL: the N of n 9. If you are in the depths of an unpleasant emotion, you feel that emotion very strongly. I was in the depths of despair when the baby was sick. N-PLURAL: the N of n 10. If something happens in the depths of a difficult or unpleasant period of time, it happens in the middle and most severe or intense part of it. The country is in the depths of a recession. N-PLURAL: the N of n 11. If you deal with a subject in depth, you deal with it very thoroughly and consider all the aspects of it. We will discuss these three areas in depth... PHRASE: PHR after v 12. If you say that someone is out of their depth, you mean that they are in a situation that is much too difficult for them to be able to cope with it. Mr Gibson is clearly intellectually out of his depth... PHRASE: usu v-link PHR 13. If you are out of your depth, you are in water that is deeper than you are tall, with the result that you cannot stand up with your head above water. PHRASE: v-link PHR 14. to plumb new depths: see plumb to plumb the depths: see plumb

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See ABYSS.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Deepness, profundity. 2. Extent, measure. 3. Middle, central part, midst, stillest part, stillness, silence. 4. Discernment, sagacity, shrewdness, penetration, astuteness, perspicacity, profoundness, profundity.

Moby Thesaurus

French pitch, Sophia, abstruseness, abysm, abyss, acumen, amplitude, area, astuteness, bigness, bodily size, body, bottomless pit, brain, breadth, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, broad-mindedness, bulk, caliber, cavity, chasm, classical pitch, coarseness, complexity, comprehensively, corpulence, coverage, crater, crevasse, deep, deeply, deepness, deeps, depths, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through, draft, drop, erudition, expanse, expansion, extension, extensively, extent, fatness, gauge, girth, good understanding, greatness, grossness, gulf, height, high pitch, hole, hollow, in detail, innerness, inness, insight, intellect, intelligence, intensity, intensively, interiority, internality, internalization, intricacy, intrinsicality, introversion, intuition, inwardness, keenness, key, largeness, length, low pitch, lowness, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, mellow wisdom, nadir, new philharmonic pitch, note, obscurity, penetration, perception, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, philharmonic pitch, philosophical pitch, pit, pitch, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, reconditeness, register, richness, ripe wisdom, sagacity, sageness, sapience, scale, scope, seasoned understanding, sense, shaft, sharpness, size, sound understanding, sounding, spread, standard pitch, strength, the third dimension, thickness, thoroughly, tonality, tone, tune, understanding, vividness, volume, well, width, wisdom, wiseness, yawning abyss