What's the difference between depth and distance?

Depth


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
  • (n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
  • (n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
  • (n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
  • (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
  • (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (2) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
  • (3) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (4) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
  • (5) Tunnel-like formations at different depths of the oral epithelium contained higher numbers of bacteria than those seen on the adjacent oral surface.
  • (6) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
  • (7) The enzyme profile of the epidermis was investigated in relation to depth.
  • (8) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
  • (9) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
  • (10) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
  • (11) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
  • (12) Depth was expressed as one of four levels: Level I, not deeper than the muscularis mucosa; Level 2, involving but not deeper than submucosa; Level 3, involving but not deeper than muscularis propria; and Level 4, involving periesophageal soft tissue.
  • (13) Thoughtful use of downloadable content provided depth too.
  • (14) Lesion dimensions ranged between 3.14 and 3.79 mm in diameter and 0.20 and 0.47 mm in depth.
  • (15) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
  • (16) Pulmonary ventilation parameters (breathing depth, frequency and minute volume, and alveolar ventilation) of 5 healthy male test subjects who performed a 20-minute tilt test were analyzed.
  • (17) Furthermore, changes between merely perceived identical parts can result in apparent depth.
  • (18) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
  • (19) The results of this study indicate that, with all other factors held constant, a patient's attrition score tends to: increase with age, increase with bite depth, decrease initially with overjet until a critical value and then increase, and be unaffected by sex, interincisal angle, U1 to NA angle, Angle classification, posterior or anterior cross bites.
  • (20) The effects of the depth of injection and of skin temperature on the latency, magnitude, and duration of itch were examined.

Distance


Definition:

  • (n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
  • (n.) Remoteness of place; a remote place.
  • (n.) A space marked out in the last part of a race course.
  • (n.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to left.
  • (n.) Space between two antagonists in fencing.
  • (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape.
  • (n.) Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety.
  • (n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events.
  • (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
  • (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
  • (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
  • (n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh.
  • (v. t.) To place at a distance or remotely.
  • (v. t.) To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.
  • (v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
  • (2) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (3) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (4) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
  • (5) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
  • (6) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
  • (7) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
  • (8) The bond distances of Cu to Cl(1), Cl(2), N(3) and N(3') atoms are 2.299 (1), 2.267 (1), 1.985 (4) and 1.996 (3) A, respectively.
  • (9) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
  • (10) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
  • (11) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (12) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (13) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
  • (14) Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said people would see through her attempts to distance herself from Gove.
  • (15) Transplanted cells divided in vivo and progressively migrated into the host brain from the site of implantation up to distances of about 1 mm.
  • (16) Discrimination was possible among these four groups on the basis of the Mahalanobis' generalized distance.
  • (17) Extrapolating animal data to the neonates, we found the thoracic segment length recommended (the average of 29% of body length and electrode distance) to be accurate.
  • (18) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (19) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
  • (20) Near acuity with distance correction was J2 or more in 93.1% of the bifocals and in 17.4% of the monofocals (without correction: 79.3% and 41.4%, respectively).