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Gaping vs Shallow - What's the difference?

gaping | shallow |

As verbs the difference between gaping and shallow

is that gaping is while shallow is to make or become less deep.

As adjectives the difference between gaping and shallow

is that gaping is wide open while shallow is having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

As nouns the difference between gaping and shallow

is that gaping is the act of one who gapes while shallow is a shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.

gaping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wide open
    • There's a gaping hole in the fence.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who gapes.
  • * 1820 , John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
    • M. Le Gallois considers these gapings , which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
  • Something gaping; something .

    • Anagrams

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    shallow

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
    • This crater is relatively shallow .
    Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
  • Extending not far downward.
    • The water is shallow here.
  • Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
    • It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
  • Lacking interest or substance.
    • The acting is good, but the characters are shallow .
  • Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
    • shallow learning
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The king was neither so shallow , nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
  • (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring
  • (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.}}

    Antonyms

    * deep

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
    • The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow .
  • * Francis Bacon
    • A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel.
  • * Dryden
    • dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
  • A fish, the rudd.

    • Usage notes

    * Usually used in the plural form.

    See also

    * shoal * sandbar * sandbank

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become less deep
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota, Science citation
    • , passage=The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ). }}

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