depth: [14] Depth is not as old as it looks. Similar nouns, such as length and strength, existed in Old English, but depth, like breadth, is a much later creation. In Old English the nouns denoting ‘quality of being deep’ were dīepe and dēopnes ‘deepness’. => deep
late 14c., apparently formed in Middle English on model of length, breadth; from Old English deop "deep" (see deep) + -th (2). Replaced older deopnes "deepness." Though the English word is relatively recent, the formation is in Proto-Germanic, *deupitho-, and corresponds to Old Saxon diupitha, Dutch diepte, Old Norse dypð, Gothic diupiþa.
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1. Mr Gibson is clearly intellectually out of his depth.
吉布森先生显然才智不逮。
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2. White wines tend to gain depth of colour with age.
白葡萄酒年头愈久，颜色愈深。
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3. The smaller lake ranges from five to fourteen feet in depth.
小一些的湖深度从5英尺到14英尺不等。
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4. Both housings are waterproof to a depth of two metres.
两个机罩的防水深度均为两米。
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5. The fat, broad tyres had a good depth of tread.
