Vertiefung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- absorption noun The process of taking in and incorporating a substance, such as light, heat, or liquid.
- hole noun A hollow space or opening in something solid, or a gap that goes all the way through.
- hollow noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
- indent noun A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- indentation noun A dent, notch, or inward curve in a surface or edge.
- notch noun A V-shaped or angular cut or indentation in an edge or surface.
- pit noun A hole or hollow in the ground.
- recess noun A break from an activity or from regular proceedings, especially in a school, court, or legislature.
Senses
Vertiefung is used for these senses in English:
- absorption Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- fossa (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
- hole (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- hollow A sunken area on a surface.
- indent A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- indentation A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
- pit (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- pit Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
absorption — full definition
- noun The process of taking in and incorporating a substance, such as light, heat, or liquid.
- noun A total engrossment of someone's attention or interest.
hole — full definition
- noun A hollow space or opening in something solid, or a gap that goes all the way through.
- noun A flaw, weakness, or gap in an argument, plan, or system.
- noun In golf, one of the numbered targets a player aims the ball into, or a full round segment of the course leading to it.