What's the difference between deep and profound?

Deep


Definition:

  • (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.

Profound


Definition:

  • (a.) Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
  • (a.) Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
  • (a.) Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
  • (a.) Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
  • (n.) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
  • (n.) An abyss.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
  • (v. i.) To dive deeply; to penetrate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
  • (2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (3) Our positive experiences with IMACS discussed above should be even more profound and profitable for the larger medical institutions.
  • (4) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (5) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
  • (6) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
  • (7) However six equivocal studies were observed in profoundly jaundiced patients with bilirubin levels above 400 mumol l-1 due to difficulties in differentiating extrahepatic obstruction from severe intrahepatic cholestasis.
  • (8) After a 2-day incubation with IL-4, expression of IL-2R p55 was markedly induced, but expression of IL2-R p70-75 was profoundly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (9) "For those people who are able to use the laws, the change is profound."
  • (10) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
  • (11) This BOA technique was used to test the hearing of 82 profoundly involved handicapped children.
  • (12) These tools will allow us to manipulate the mammalian immune response in a variety of different ways that will have a profound impact both on our understanding of immunology and on medicine in the future.
  • (13) Based on the fact that all hibernators, at their regulated minimal body temperature, display a uniform turnover rate, related to body weight, the hypothesis is developed that cold tolerance of mammals is generally limited by a common specific minimal metabolic rate, which larger organisms, because of their lower basal metabolism, already attain in less profound hypothermia.
  • (14) Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) is present at high levels in fetal and early neonatal rat plasma, and decreases profoundly following birth.
  • (15) The reduction in level of activity and adverse changes in body composition caused by SCI have profound metabolic consequences that may influence the progression and severity of coronary artery disease.
  • (16) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
  • (17) In the paper life-threatening diseases which may be accompanied by profound unconsciousness are explained from the laboratory-chemical point of view.
  • (18) However pneumonia to PC points to a poor prognosis because they are always associated with a profound deficit or cellular immunity.
  • (19) Thus, it is possible that the loss of these dendritic cells may contribute to the profound immunological abnormalities seen in AIDS.
  • (20) They produce a more profound effect on clinical and biochemical aspects of rheumatoid arthritis than do the aspirin-like non steroidals.