(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.
Feet
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Foot.
(n.) Fact; performance.
(pl. ) of Foot
Example Sentences:
(1) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
(2) The Vatican spokesman said two of the 12 whose feet were washed were Muslim inmates.
(3) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(4) Often they were 3-0 up by then, but that is unlikely to be the case in the World Cup , and in 30 degrees we could be out on our feet after 20 minutes.
(5) The area occupied by parenchymal cells, in sections comprising the entire half of the surface of the carotid body, is significantly greater in people born and living at 14,350 feet than in those at sea level.
(6) Deformities of the foot were common, and twelve feet had been operated on for correction.
(7) Nonmetallic foreign bodies were embedded in cadaver feet.
(8) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
(9) Callosities under at least one metatarsophalangeal joint were noted in fifty (69 per cent) of the feet that had a physical examination.
(10) Although the majority of pigs had lesions in feet, or had dyschondroplastic changes typical of osteochondrosis in many growth cartilages, particularly physes, there were no significant differences in frequency of pigs with lesions between groups.
(11) A matter of minutes after his appointment was announced on Thursday, the newly minted minister for Portsmouth was on his feet answering questions in the Commons.
(12) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(13) Cabin altitudes ranged from sea level to 8,915 feet (2717 m).
(14) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
(15) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(16) He was looking down at his feet - and she realised he felt the shame, too.
(17) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(18) Fifteen feet had a good and two had a poor correction of the deformity of the hind part of the foot, the result being directly related to the intraoperative correction of the equinus deformity.
(19) The findings showed that flat feet are usual in infants, common in children, and within the normal range of the observations made in adult feet.
(20) A case is presented where the bones of both hands and both feet exhibited bone metastases.