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形容詞

deep-water

1. Having a great depth of water.

   a deep-water harbour

   • 1957 December, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:

     It is intended to develop San Lourenzo into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.

   • 2021 October 20, “News in pictures”, in RAIL, number 942, page 31, photo caption:

     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.

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.

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形容詞

deepwater (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of deep-water.

名詞

deepwater (uncountable)

1. Brine collected in a seafloor depression (brine pool).

参照

• “deepwater”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.