(superl.) Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
(superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.
(superl.) Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.
(superl.) Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
(superl.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
(superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.
(superl.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.
(superl.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
(superl.) Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.
(adv.) To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
(n.) That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
(n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
(2) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(3) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(4) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(5) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(6) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(7) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(8) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(9) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(10) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(11) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(12) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
(13) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(14) "She was a beautiful woman, she had beautiful, deep green eyes.
(15) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
(16) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(17) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
(18) This was followed firstly by superficial and then by deep ulceration of the mucosa.
(19) In deep forms of acne, particularly acne conglobata, Akne-Mycyna may be a valuable supplementation of systemic treatment.
(20) The soleus, deep portions of the vastus lateralis, and superficial portions of the vastus lateralis muscles were examined to represent slow-twitch-oxidative, fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic, and fast-twitch-glycolytic skeletal muscle fiber types, respectively.
Dip
Definition:
(v. t.) To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
(v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
(v. t.) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
(v. t.) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
(v. t.) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.
(v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
(v. i.) To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
(v. i.) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.
(v. i.) To pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.
(v. i.) To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
(v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.
(v. i.) To dip snuff.
(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
(n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
(n.) A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.
(n.) A dipped candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
(2) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(3) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(4) The dip-strip home cultures are an effective way for screening or follow-up of patients with bacteriuria.
(5) A further 26 herds (iiii) which did not employ iodine-containing teat-dips, were also studied.
(6) According to a survey by Deloitte of corporate finance officers, there is a danger of a "triple-dip recession" within the next two years, with companies cutting back rather than expanding.
(7) a digital processing (DIP) method for assessing bone mass was developed on the basis of image analysis of roentgenograms.
(8) The shares fell 45% on his watch, with an especially big dip coming after the Autonomy deal was announced.
(9) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
(10) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(11) Viable spleen cells collected 7 days after irradiation were totally unresponsive to mitogenic or antigenic stimulation regardless of Cu-DIPS or vehicle treatment, suggesting that Cu-DIPS did not prevent radiation-induced damage to mature lymphocytes.
(12) Demographic factors could also be behind any dip in applications.
(13) Total UK ad spend hit a previous high of £13.1bn in 2007 before dipping to £11.3bn in 2009 following the credit crunch and ensuing recession.
(14) Measles was diagnosed by isolation of measles virus by cell culture, direct immunoperoxidase (DIP), direct immunofluorescence (DIF) and ELISA.
(15) Aliquots of saliva from 50 schoolchildren and 51 adults were tested by the dip-slide method and by conventional plating methods in MSB agar.
(16) With time and sufficient promotion by pH fluctuations or metal-complexing agents, DIP and LAS expand.
(17) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
(18) Real wages are falling, household incomes have dipped and GDP per person is still some way off its pre-downturn peak.
(19) This is clinically significant and offers new possibilities for treatment of the so-called "morning dip."
(20) DIP was shown to inhibit phosphodiesterase (PDE) from both platelets and bovine coronary arteries.