(n.) A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.
(n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration.
(v. t.) To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span.
(v. t.) The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Erik Britton, of City consultancy Fathom, said: "The LTRO [long term refinancing operation] and all those things, all it's done is bought a bit of time, but it hasn't addressed the structural problems, even slightly, even for Greece."
(2) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
(3) Fathoming of the vestibule below the central and inferior thirds of the footplate surface has shown that there is no likely danger to the vestibular end organs or cochlear duct if manipulations are carried out no deeper than 1 mm below the surface.
(4) Her dystopian imagination fathoms the darker parts of the US.
(5) Danny Gabay, director of City consultancy Fathom, says what Europe faces is fundamentally a banking crisis.
(6) Erik Britton, of the City consultancy Fathom, says one possibility is that borrowing costs everywhere will rise.
(7) Sometimes, even when it is not possible to fathom the direct cause of an event, the context in which it took place offers many clues.
(8) Speaking before signing a book of condolence on a lectern in the middle of Seville Place directly facing the church, the ex-prime minister said he could not fathom why the paper's columnist had launched what thousands have condemned as a homophobic attack on the singer's memory.
(9) Andrew Brigden, of City consultancy Fathom, said there was a one in three chance of a "double-dip" downturn in the world economy, and warned that with demand at home likely to be depressed as governments and overstretched households sorted out their finances, all the major economies would be pinning their hopes on exporting to foreign markets – but they could not all play that game at once.
(10) The relationship suffered, as did many of his other close relationships with family and friends who could not fathom what he had been through.
(11) It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.” Trump later pledged in the statement “to do everything in my power throughout my presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good”.
(12) Fathom argues instead for changes that would direct any fresh electronic cash at what it sees as the source of the UK's economic crisis: an overvalued UK housing market.
(13) Neither I, nor the CBS commentary team can fathom why the officials waited until Baltimore were just about to snap the ball on the next play, after a Cincinnati time-out, to call for the review.
(14) We want you gone.” “I still can’t fathom the thought that that’s me,” Rose told the Guardian.
(15) The deeply misjudged anti-nature narrative that has become embedded in political discourse is hard to fathom.
(16) Few journalists attempted to fathom the reason for his overwhelming victory in the Labour leadership contest in 2015 and few have sought systematically and impartially to explore the policies he has promoted as leader.
(17) Using similar measures the London-based consultancy Fathom estimates China is really growing at 3.1% a year, not 7%.
(18) Danny Gabay, of consultancy Fathom, accused the chancellor of encouraging households to take on even more debt, exposing them to the risk of a housing downturn.
(19) Cable is also addressing the widespread complaint that remuneration sections in annual reports are all but impossible for private investors to fathom.
(20) Right to the end Mobutu could not fathom how it was that tiny Rwanda had toppled his once monolithic regime.
Fathomless
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
(a.) Incomprehensible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
(2) The crown translates a woman to a Queen – endless gold, circling itself, an O like a well, fathomless, for the years to drown in – history's bride, anointed, blessed, for a crowning.
(3) But I began hearing something used more and more widely on my noughties jazz travels: a taut, unsentimental, many-layered sound that seemed to connect to the interlocking patterns of hip-hop and dance beats, the power of computers and fathomless online jukeboxes, contemporary-classical and minimalist ideas, and the cyclical patterns of African and Indian traditions.
(4) So they papered over what was a dark, fathomless chasm in their marriage and pretended all was well.
(5) It's drily funny, a little self-deprecating, told in a slightly camp Oldham accent, and it features one of his seemingly fathomless array of celebrity friends.
(6) Here was a calm, ponderous and dedicated European brushing up against the man whose ignorance of foreign affairs seems fathomless, and whose brain seems to work in 140-character spurts of vulgarity and provocation.
(7) For a fathomless reason Meyler decided to turn the ball from the left towards Jakupovic only to pass straight to Giroud, and the Frenchman made no mistake for a 19th strike of the season.
(8) I was a little frightened of the house at first: those eyes followed me doggedly, and at night, when the darkness was fathomless, the house embarked on long interior monologues, the water groaning in its old pipes, the floorboards clicking and creaking, the damp walls sometimes emitting a profound shudder or sigh, while outside the wind roared in the oak trees and over the black shapes of hills.