deep

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Take deep breaths, listen for a bit, and wait for more information to come out.

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Quick take

the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"

noun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

noun

literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for deep.

noun

the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"

noun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

noun

literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

adjective

relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"

adjective

marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"

adjective

having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"; "a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"; "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "surrounded by a deep yard"; "hit the ball to deep center field"; "in deep space"; "waist-deep"

adjective

very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"

adjective

extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"

adjective

having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"

adjective

strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"

adjective

relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"

adjective

extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"

adjective

(of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"

adjective

large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"

adjective

with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"

adjective

of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

adjective

difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

adjective

exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"

adverb

to a great depth;far down; "dived deeply"; "dug deep"

adverb

to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"

adverb

to a great distance; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods"

Example sentences

Take deep breaths, listen for a bit, and wait for more information to come out.

Bored devs probably means you better take a deep hard look at everything else.

Let me try and give you an idea of how deep the rabbit hole can go.- Okay, you want to detect bots.

It was a submarine rigged for silent running, deep and quiet, that's never bothered to surface for air.

If at this point, Putin sounds reasonable and is starting to look like the better of two devils, we're in deep shit.

Man finds a black kind of rock that burns; discovers that you can get a lot of this rock if you dig deeper, but deep mines have water.

Outrage!Last year, coursera ran a course on deep learning from one of the guys who's widely credited with inventing deep learning.

Some documents generate a DOM >20,000 nodes deep, which is evidently too much to fit in typical C stacks, although Gumbo can handle them.

They only want people who don't care about buyer reputation, and have deep enough pockets and the expectation that chargebacks and fraud will occur.

"This argument betrays either a very weak understanding of how defensive patents work or a deep dishonesty of argumentation.

* Simple diffing would prevent deliberate obfuscation tactics like burying provisions deep inside piles of irrelevant stuff.

For example, in eastern Wyoming, an analysis showed that \n it would cost half a million dollars to construct a water \n well into deep, but high-quality aquifer reserves.

I think that it actually has tended to clarify thinking about security so that fewer and fewer engineers are able to delude themselves into trusting something that they know deep down is really untrustworthy.

In ways for which many are deeply thankful, it is using all the resources of modern technology to add huge value to otherwise dormant copyrighted works and to use the resulting product in ways that truly advances arts and science.

"This is a soundly reasoned decision that is a highlight of modern law not so much because of any deep legal reasoning as such but because it profoundly captures and applies the spirit of the law in ways that comport with modern technological advancement.

Quite often though industry biases will engage and they'll be put on duty keeping some legacy system alive because their deep knowledge of the system lets the company put 1 guy maintaining half a million lines of code in perpetuity vs. 10 young guys maintaining the same, who all wanting to leave after a few years to build more skills.