depth

Signification (English)

1. the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
2. the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
3. the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
4. lowness
5. the total palette of available colors
6. the property of appearing three-dimensional
7. the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
8. a very remote part.
9. the most severe part
10. the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
11. a pair of toothed wheels which work together
12. the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
13. the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
14. A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
15. An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).

Concepts

profondeur

longueur

fond

🔙

largeur

profond

taille

trou

🕳️

développement

complexité

gouffre

hauteur

Synonyms

profundity

deepness

profoundness

abyss

bottom

length

intensity

height

the deep

depths

deep place

lowness

astuteness

gulf

size

abstruseness

shade

sounding

soundness

strength

substance

throat

valley

wisdom

D

DP

far end

deep level

innermost part

market depth

distance measured by a rope

inside measurement

hill-and-dale

back

🔙

degree of depth

abysm

background

baseness

concentration

deep

extent

fullness

growth

insight

meanness

penetration

pool

pungency

richness

sagacity

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɛpθ/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: depthe

Inherited from ancien anglais: *dīepþ

Cognate with écossais: deepth

Cognate with saterlandais: Djüpte

Cognate with frison occidental: djipte

Cognate with néerlandais: diepte

Cognate with bas-allemand: Deepde

Cognate with danois: dybde

Cognate with islandais: dýpt

Cognate with gotique: 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰

In summary

From Middle English depthe, from Old English *dīepþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþō (“depth”), equivalent to deep + -th. Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌹𐌸𐌰 (diupiþa, “depth”).