(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.
Underlayer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
(n.) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
Example Sentences:
(1) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
(2) These in vitro findings probably account for the remarkable results obtained in infections which up to now had mortality rates of 30 to 60 per cent, depending on the patient's underlaying condition.
(3) The type I + III collagen underlayer is reorganized when grafted.
(4) On the other hand, the alpha blockers might interfere with the ionic mechanisms underlaying the 4-AP effect thus, masking the removal of the noradrenergic control, due to an alpha blockade.
(5) The stromal underlayer has the typical morphological structure: its cells are compactly packed in the form of a skein with stromal mechanocytes among them.
(6) It is suggested that the motoneuron excitability changes within the interspike interval underlay the relationship between the motoneuron firing rate and effectiveness of the excitatory afferent volley.
(7) We report the anatomical and functional results of 156 myringoplasty; 134 with onlay surgical technique and 22 with underlay technique.
(8) Repair of the tympanic membrane with an underlay connective tissue graft (fascia in 90%) was successful in 97% of the ears.
(9) The small, underlayer scales, which on the flagella are shown to be arranged in 24 rows, number about 350000; larger scales of more complex construction number about 20 000.
(10) On pathological basis (simple, purulent and cholestéatomatous otitis) they used the overlay or the underlay method.
(11) A circus movement with antegrad conduction through the AV node and retograde conduction through an accessory pathway was found as the underlaying mechanism of the tachycardia.
(12) Flat cytoplasmic extensions of squamous cells underlay most of the goblet cell basal pole which therefore had only a small area on the basal lamina.
(13) In arterial walls collagen type III was detected immediately underlaying the endothelial cell layer and in the tissue between tunica elastica interna and adventitia.
(14) After dividing the posterior anulus, the flaps are rotated anteriorly, a maneuver that provides ample exposure of the middle ear and greatly simplifies underlay fascia grafting.
(15) In double soft-agar culture, colony formations of cancer cells in the overlayer were stimulated or inhibited by the presence of various kinds of fibroblast in the underlayer.
(16) Charged £2,339 in September 2005 for supply and fitting of "magnolia cavalier cavalace velvet wool carpet with cloud and cumulus underlay".
(17) These facts do not contradict our previous suggestion that the lipid-protein interactions underlay the regulative action mechanism of the natural bioactive ligands.
(18) The colony-stimulating activity of unfractionated conditioned medium was equivalent to the activity of standard peripheral blood underlayers.
(19) Transmural infarction underlay each case of ruptured ventricular septum, while in ruptured papillary muscle 11 of 20 cases showed subendocardial infarction.
(20) This problem has been solved by the layering of an intermediate D2O solution under the BSA and subsequent removal of the BSA solution and the underlaying with D2O containing glutaraldehyde.