desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
deprivation
- n a state of extreme poverty
- n the disadvantage that results from losing something
losing him is no great deprivation - n act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
deprivation of civil rights
depth
- n the extent downward or backward or inward
the depth of the water
depth of a shelf
depth of a closet - n degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- n (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part
from the depths of darkest Africa
signals received from the depths of space - n (usually plural) a low moral state
he had sunk to the depths of addiction - n the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- n the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
the depth of his breathing
the depth of his sighs," "the depth of his emotion