From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
shallow
adj 1: 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" [ant: deep]
2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow
breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a
shallow trance" [ant: deep]
3: 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 [syn: shoal]
v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: shoal]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn:
shoal]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, n.
1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a
shoal; a flat; a shelf.
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A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon
shallows of gravel. --Bacon.
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Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
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2. (Zool.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. Shallower; superl.
Shallowest.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or
shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D.
& G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve to slope, Shoal
shallow.]
1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and
rivers wide." --Milton.
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2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
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The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
--Bacon.
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3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating
deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant;
superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
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The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill
advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the
French king. --Bacon.
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Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
--Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t.
To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i.
To become shallow, as water.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See Rud, n.] (Zool.)
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.
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