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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. Jonah 2.

4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.

When he set a compass on the face of the depth. Prov. 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. Rom 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.


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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. Jonah 2.

4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.

When he set a compass on the face of the depth. Prov. 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. Rom 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.

DEPTH, n. [from deep.]

  1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downward or inward. 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. – Jonah ii.
  4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity. When he set a compass on the face of the depth. – Prov. viii.
  5. The middle 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 science.
  7. Unsearchableness; infinity. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. – Rom. xi.
  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. – Mar. Dict.

Depth
  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. The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.
  3. 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.

  4. Lowness; as, depth of sound.
  5. 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.

  6. The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  7. A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

    [R.]

    Depth of a sail (Naut.), the extent of a square sail from the head rope to the foot rope; the length of the after leach of a staysail or boom sail; -- commonly called the drop of a sail.

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Depth

DEPTH, noun

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. Jonah 2:5.

4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.

When he set a compass on the face of the depth Proverbs 8:27.

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 11:33.

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.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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