Noun

(en noun)

The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.

Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.

The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.

(figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.

The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.

The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.

We were impressed by the depth of her knowledge.

Lowness.

the depth of a sound

(computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.

(arts, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.

The depth of field in this picture is amazing.

(literary, usually plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)

The burning ship finally sunk into the depths .

(literary, usually plural) A very remote part.

Into the depths of the jungle...

In the depths of the night,

The most severe part.

in the depth of the crisis

in the depths of winter

(logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

(horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

(statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.

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Depth	1	2	3	4	5	4	3	2	1

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Noun

(en noun)

Physical matter; material.

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Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

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The essential part of anything; the most vital part.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance , not the appearance, chose.

* Bishop Burnet

This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.

* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.

Substantiality; solidity; firmness.

Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

* Bible, (w) xv. 13

And there wasted his substance with riotous living.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Thy substance , valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.

* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance , but not for our own interest.

Drugs (illegal narcotics)

(theology) Hypostasis.