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DEPTHS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(plural) the deepest and most remote part
Example:
signals received from the depths of space
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("depths" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depths"):
back of beyond (a very remote and inaccessible place)
Context examples:
His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A serrated strip of gray matter under the medial border of the hippocampus and in its depths.
(Dentate Gyrus, NCI Thesaurus)
The needle may be twirled, moved up and down at different speeds and depths, heated, or charged with a small electric current until the de qi sensation occurs.
(De qi sensation, NCI Dictionary)
The needle may be twirled, moved up and down at different speeds and depths, heated, or charged with a low electric current.
(Needling, NCI Dictionary)
The night passed away, and the sun rose from the ocean; my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“My surmise, as you saw, proved to be correct,” said he, speaking from the depths of his easy-chair.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Life in Earth's oceans depends on upwelling (upward flow) which returns nutrients from the dark depths of the ocean to the sunlit portions of the ocean where photosynthetic life lives.
(Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life than Exists on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Over the last 10,000 years, snow and rain dripped into the depths of Scărișoara, where they froze into thin layers of ice containing chemical evidence of past winter temperature changes.
(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)
