Depth and Shaft

Depth

Depth noun - Distance measured from the top to the bottom of something.

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Shaft and depth are semantically related in nature topic. In some cases you can use "Shaft" instead a noun "Depth", when it comes to topics like valley.

Shaft

Shaft noun - A narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object.

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Synonyms for Shaft

Depth and shaft are semantically related in valley topic. Sometimes you can use "Depth" instead a noun "Shaft".

Nearby Word: shafting

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How words are described

full	full depth	full shaft
particular	particular depth	particular shaft
right	right depth	right shaft
sheer	sheer depth	sheer shaft
Other adjectives: small, entire, huge, little, new, hidden, smaller.

Both words in one sentence

After reaching their greatest depth in forty-odd chapters, the explorers find themselves in the shaft of a volcano and get erupted out in just a few chapters.

Source: Boring Return Journey
The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.

Source: Ghibli Hills
An Indonesian oil and gas company, PT Lapindo Brantas, in its search for natural gas in East Java, created a "Borehole" (a narrow shaft) into the Earth, digging more then 10,000 meters into the ground (a depth no natural gas has ever been found at before).

Source: Dug Too Deep

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