literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"
the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"
very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"
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"
relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"
with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"
large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"
extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"
to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods";
to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"
process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it; "he led the queen of hearts"; "hearts were trumps"
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart"
the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"
the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"
the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"
a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a five-pound beef heart will serve six"
a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; "he drew a heart and called it a valentine"
definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"
a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"
the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"
profit privately from public office and official business
the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"
a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
(physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce
a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"
a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes"
occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position"
the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"
the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished"
(elections) more than half of the votes
the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"
without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion); "it's expensive all right"