What's the difference between depth and profundity?

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.

Profundity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The substances released by algae in the profundal are taken up by aquatic bacteria which explains the lower release and PER measured.
  • (2) Thirty patients with 43 ischaemic limbs were treated by profundal revascularization.
  • (3) PCB and sigma DDT concentrations were greater in the predatory bottom animals than in the herbivores or detritus feeders, and the amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were greater in profundal animals than in littoral animals.
  • (4) The ganglia of the anterodorsal lateral line and profundal-trigeminal nerves are totally separate throughout their rostrocaudal extent.
  • (5) The constrictor effects of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) on the profundal femoral, circumflex femoral, saphenous, and popliteal arteries varied among 19 out of 20 sites.
  • (6) "Contrast that with the 'deep-voiced' man, and its connotations of profundity.
  • (7) This syndrome, which was first described in 1959, is characterized by mechanical pain in one or both hips and profund osteoporosis occurring shortly before or during the third trimester of pregnancy.
  • (8) He veered between profundity and giggles, sometimes all in one sentence.
  • (9) The higher release of algal products of photosynthesis in the photic zone than in the profundal is probably caused by the inhibition of physiological activity of bacteria by antibacterial substances produced by algae.
  • (10) The mathematical probability of procervical activity (1.0 if all procervical; 0.0 if all profundal), and thus the transport, was 0.59 in eumenorrheic and 0.68 in dysmenorrheic patients, the average for the whole series being 0.65.
  • (11) "Their words carry a profundity and eloquence that deserves to be heard alongside George Washington or Shakespeare or St Catherine of Siena."
  • (12) Because of its safety and the profundity of its hypolipidemic action, it is suggested that charcoal may find applicability in the management of azotemic diabetic and nephrotic hyperlipidemia.
  • (13) Naegleria and Vahlkampfia were the most frequently encountered FLA in littoral sediment and surface water samples whereas Acanthamoeba was most commonly isolated from profundal sediment, especially during late summer.
  • (14) Populations in profundal sediment underwent dramatic seasonal shifts, apparently in response to the seasonal chemical changes in the hypolimnion.
  • (15) 1 aorto-profundal and 2 iliaco-femoral bypasses have remaint.
  • (16) Acanthamoeba was most prevalent in late summer, representing as much as 82% of the FLA in profundal sediment.
  • (17) Microbial biomass and activity were examined in four different arctic sediments: littoral lake sediment and profundal lake sediment from Toolik Lake, Alaska, thaw pond sediment, and eroding river bank peat.
  • (18) He looked up to see a lissome figure with gentle brown eyes that held a profundity of experience rarely encountered in someone of her age.
  • (19) Quantitative estimation of the priority ranges made it possible to determine the profundity of the functional relations between the cerebral structures.
  • (20) The sainted Richard Dawkins habitually manages to frame the questions involved with his customary profundity – claiming in The God Delusion, for example, that: “When my life is taken out, I want to be under general anaesthetic, as if it were my diseased appendix.” But Pharoah’s story shines light on the nuance and complexity that surrounds the whole question, and the cultural factors that are in danger of pushing the argument somewhere very unpleasant.