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DEPTH

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depth substantiv

1. adâncime, profunzime, adânc;

10 feet in depth adânc de 10 picioare;

he is beyond / out of his depth a) nu mai atinge pământul; b) (fig.) e copleşit / depăşit (de o problemă etc.);

don’t go out of your depth nu te duce prea adânc (în apă).

2. loc adânc, prăpastie, abis; (fig.) mare; plural (poetic) hău, genune.

3. (fig.) străfund, adânc; inimă; toi;

in the depth of winter în toiul iernii;

in the depth of night în adâncul / în toiul nopţii;

in the depths of the forest în inima codrului;

in the depth of despair în culmea disperării;

in the depth of misery în culmea mizeriei.

4. (tehn.) adâncime; profunzime; grosime;

depth of ballast grosime a stratului;

depth of field profunzime a câmpului;

depth of focus profunzime focală;

depth of the well adâncime a puţului;

depth of wing profunzime a aripei.

5. intensitate, tărie (a culorii).

6. (fig.) adâncime, profunzime (a spiritului); şiretenie.

7. (fig.) opacitate; obscuritate; lipsă de inteligenţă.

8. (tehn.) adâncime; grosime; înălţime.

9. (geol.) grosime a stratului (între culcuş şi acoperiş).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I'm afraid I got beyond my depth in it, but my intentions were good.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Breslow depth is used to help determine the stage of cancer.

(Breslow depth, NCI Dictionary)

I know what sorrows you have had, though I cannot measure the depth of them.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I really think I saw tears rise to his eyes, from the depth of his own feeling of all this.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And closely akin to the visions of the hairy man was the call still sounding in the depths of the forest.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

“I must confess that I am out of my depths,” said I.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also called Breslow depth.

(Breslow thickness, NCI Dictionary)

To add to their discomfort, they soon heard strange noises in the depths of the forest, and the Lion whispered to them that it was in this part of the country that the Kalidahs lived.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

This study is the first of its kind to take such an in-depth examination of a gene-diet interaction, one that pertains to obesity and the differential response to dietary saturated fat between individuals carrying variants of a specific gene, APOA2.

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

I looked down once, so as to make sure that a sudden glimpse of the awful depth would not overcome me, but after that kept my eyes away from it.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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