(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.
Thin
Definition:
(superl.) Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
(superl.) Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
(superl.) Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
(superl.) Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
(superl.) Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
(superl.) Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
(superl.) Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
(adv.) Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
(v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
(v. i.) To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(4) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(5) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(6) Separation of PL by thin-layer chromatography revealed a prevalence of phosphatidylcholine followed by phosphatidylethanolamine.
(7) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
(8) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(9) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
(10) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
(11) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(12) The triglycerides are isolated by means of thin-layer chromatography.
(13) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
(14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
(15) A specific vitamin A-dependent fluorophore was isolated from these retinas using thin-layer chromatography (TLC).
(16) Thinning of the dermis and the arrangement of collagen in parallel bundles appear to be constant findings.
(17) Thin-layer chromatogram with immunostaining revealed that serum IgG from this patient reacted with GM1, GD1a, GD1b, but did not react with GM2 and GT1b.
(18) A CT of the chest revealed typical thin-walled cysts of lymphangioleiomyomatosis.
(19) Homogenates of mucosa and muscle layer were incubated with (14C)-labelled arachidonic acid, and prostaglandin formation was determined using thin-layer chromatography.
(20) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.