Brim vs Deep - What's the difference?
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An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
* Bible, Josh. iii. 15
The topmost rim or lip of a container.
* Coleridge:
A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
To be full to overflowing.
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To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
* Tennyson:
Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
#Extending far down from the top or surface; having its bottom far down.
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#*:Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
#Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.
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#In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
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#Thick.
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#*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
#A long way inside; situated far in or back.
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## Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
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##(label) Relatively farther downfield.
Complex, involved.
#Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
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#To a significant, not superficial, extent.
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#*:While Britain’s recession has been deep and unforgiving, in London it has been relatively shallow.
#Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
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#* (Thomas De Quincey):
#*:Why it was that the ancients had no landscape painting, is a question deep almost as the mystery of life, and harder of solution than all the problems of jurisprudence combined.
#Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
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#*:deep clerks
Low in pitch.
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(lb) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken ).
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Immersed, submerged (in).
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Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
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*:The ways in that vale were very deep .
Deeply.
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The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
(US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
The sea, the ocean.
(cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.
As nouns the difference between brim and deep
is that brim is (obsolete) the sea; ocean; water; flood or brim can be an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water) while deep is the deep part of a lake, sea, etc.As adjectives the difference between brim and deep
is that brim is (obsolete) fierce; sharp; cold while deep is extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards .As a verb brim
is to be full to overflowing or brim can be of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.As an adverb deep is
deeply.brim
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) brim, brym, .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) brim, brem, .Noun
(en noun)- The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.
- The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
- Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.
- He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
- (Wordsworth)
Derived terms
* to the brimVerb
(brimm)- The room brimmed with people.
New York Times
- It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
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- Arrange the board and brim the glass.
Etymology 3
Either from (breme), or directly from (etyl) (though not attested in Middle English).Verb
(brimm)Etymology 4
See (breme).Anagrams
* * ----deep
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Synonyms
* * (having great meaning) heavy, meaningful, profound * (in extent in a direction away from the observer) * (thick in a vertical direction) thick * (voluminous) great, large, voluminous * (low in pitch) low, low-pitched * bright, rich, vividAntonyms
* shallow * (having great meaning) frivolous, light, shallow, superficial * (in extent in a direction away from the observer) shallow * (thick in a vertical direction) shallow, thin * (voluminous) shallow, small * (low in pitch) high, high-pitched, piping * light, pale, desaturated, washed-outSee also
* tall * wide * high * thickAdverb
(en adverb)- Deep -versed in books, and shallow in himself.
- Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring.
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
Noun
- creatures of the deep
- Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep .