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deep-water en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having a great depth of water.
   • The route was opened in stages between 1846-57, to link mineral industries in the area to a deep-water port at Barrow [-in-Furness] and to the rest of the national network. 2021 October 20, “News in pictures”, in RAIL, number 942, page 31, photo caption:
   • It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^([sic]) into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach. 1957 December 14, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
   • a deep-water harbour
2. Carried out at great depth.
   • deep-water drilling
3. Located in or near deep ocean waters.
   • a deep-water port
4. Living at a great depth underwater.

Forms

Deriveds

deepwater cardinalfish · deepwater prawn · deepwater big-eyed worm eel

Relateds

blue-water navy · deep water

Translations (9)

cmn 深水的 (located in or near deep water) · pl głębokowodny (having a great depth of water) · fi syvän veden (carried out at great depth) · fi syvän veden (located in or near deep water) · pl głębokowodny (carried out at great depth) · cmn 深水的 (carried out at great depth) · fi syvä- (having a great depth of water) · cmn 深水的 (having a great depth of water) · pl głębokowodny (located in or near deep water)