depth

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep countable,uncountable
    — Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
  2. the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet countable,uncountable
  3. the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
  4. lowness countable,uncountable
    — the depth of a sound
  5. the total palette of available colors countable,uncountable
  6. the property of appearing three-dimensional countable,uncountable
    — The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
  7. the deepest part (usually of a body of water) countable,literary,plural-normally,uncountable
    — The burning ship finally sunk into the depths.
  8. a very remote part. countable,literary,plural-normally,uncountable
    — Into the depths of the jungle...
  9. the most severe part countable,uncountable
    — in the depth of the crisis
  10. the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content countable,uncountable
  11. a pair of toothed wheels which work together countable,uncountable
  12. the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface countable,uncountable
  13. the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values countable,uncountable
  14. A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key. countable,uncountable
  15. An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory). countable,uncountable

词形变化

depths plural

词源

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots deepth, Saterland Frisian Djüpte, West Frisian djipte (“depth; abyss, chasm”), Dutch diepte, German Low German Deepd, Luxembourgish Déift, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål dybde (“depth”), Faroese dýpd (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt, Norwegian Nynorsk djupt, dypt, and Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”); further to Old English diepe, German Tiefe, Icelandic dýpi, Norwegian Nynorsk djup, djupn, Swedish djup.
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