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shallow meaning

EN[ˈʃaləʊ] [ˈʃæl.oʊ] [-æləʊ]
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WShallow
  • Shallow may refer to:
  • People
  • Hyron Shallow (born 1982), West Indian cricketer
  • Parvati Shallow (born 1982), winner of the reality TV show Survivor: Micronesia
  • Places
  • Shallow Lake, Idaho, United States
  • Shallow Brook, New Jersey, United States
  • Shallow Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts), United States
  • Shallow Inlet, Victoria, Australia
  • Shallow Bay (disambiguation), various places
  • Other
  • Robert Shallow, a character in two Shakespeare plays
  • a type of ocean bank or shoal, which is shallow compared to its surroundings
  • "Shallow" (song), by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree

    Definition of shallow in English Dictionary

  • NounPLshallows
    1. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
      1. The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
    2. A fish, the rudd.
    3. VerbSGshallowsPRshallowingPT, PPshallowed
      1. To make or become less deep.
        1. The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
    4. AdjectiveCOMshallowerSUPshallowest
      1. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
        1. This crater is relatively shallow.
        2. Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
      2. Extending not far downward.
        1. The water is shallow here.
      3. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
        1. It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
      4. Lacking interest or substance.
        1. The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
      5. Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
        1. shallow learning
      6. (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
        1. (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
          1. Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.
      7. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Tooth implantation is subthecodont as μCT images show that the teeth sit in shallow sockets (but see below).
          • Operculum ( Op ) broad, longer than the bursa, distally narrowing into a rounded apical process bearing ca. 10 setae, anterior surface subdistally with shallow concavity ( C ).
          • There is a vast amount of literature available that provides in-depth reviews of modeling shallow water flows using the finite difference, finite volume, and finite element methods.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • You'll have to navigate carefully through these shallows.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Nouns
            • Countable nouns
            • Verbs
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            1. en shallows
            2. en shallowly
            3. en shallowed
            4. en shallower
            5. en shallowing
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of shallow for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "shallow" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.
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