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How to pronounce depth in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deepness
Type of extent
Has types profoundness, deepness, draft, draught, penetration, profundity, shallowness, sounding


the depth of the water.
depth of a shelf.
depth of a closet.
Type Words
Synonyms astuteness, deepness, profoundness, profundity
Type of wisdom, sapience
Type Words
Type of level, grade, degree
Has types profundity, superficiality, shallowness, profoundness
Type Words
Type of attribute


the depth of his breathing.
the depth of his sighs.
the depth of his emotion.
Type Words
Type of degradation, abasement, abjection


he had sunk to the depths of addiction.

Examples of depth

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The depth of their professional relationship was as secret as their love affair.
From the dailyherald.com
Last year tested the depth of the Cardinals'pitching and the arms faltered late.
From the stltoday.com
Even the team's depth contributors, Deryk Engelland and Ben Lovejoy, are mobile.
From the post-gazette.com
However, those plans didn't envision a spill of this magnitude or at this depth.
From the kentucky.com
There are two measures of depth that are related to drilling these relief wells.
From the sacbee.com
Trading was halted for a time this afternoon because of the depth of the plunge.
From the democratandchronicle.com
He will add some depth to the strike force behind Robin van Persie and Gervinho.
From the theepochtimes.com
In social-science research one can have breadth or depth, but almost never both.
From the economist.com
Depth does remain a problem, though perhaps not to the same degree as last year.
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  • The extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"
  • Degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
  • (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"
  • (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
  • Astuteness: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
  • 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"
  • In finance, market depth is the size of an order needed to move the market a given amount. If the market is deep, a large order is needed to change the price. ...
  • In commutative and homological algebra, depth is an important invariant of rings and modules. Although depth can be defined more generally, the most common case considered is the case of modules over a commutative Noetherian local ring. ...
  • (Depths (album)) Depths is the debut album by American deathcore band Oceano, released April 7, 2009 through Earache Records. Music videos were made for the songs "District of Misery" and "A Mandatory Sacrifice".