shallow : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shallow	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for shallow
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shallow adj lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field" Antonym(s): deep not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance" Antonym(s): deep lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious" n a stretch of shallow water Synonym(s): shoal, shallow v make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: shallow, shoal] become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" Synonym(s): shallow, shoal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See {Rud}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus erythrophthalmus}). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also {redeye}, {roud}, {finscale}, and {shallow}. A blue variety is called {azurine}, or {blue roach}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, n. 1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon. Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t. To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i. To become shallow, as water.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. {Shallower}; superl. {Shallowest}.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[be]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. {Shelve} to slope, {Shoal} shallow.] 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. [bd]Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.[b8] --Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. [R.] The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon. 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon. Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.