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  • 31Shallow-brained — Shal low brained , a. Weak in intellect; foolish; empty headed. South. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 32Shallow-hearted — Shal low heart ed, a. Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 33Shallow-waisted — Shal low waist ed, a. (Naut.) Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; said of a vessel. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 34shallow — index barren, cursory, fatuous, frivolous, puerile, superficial, trivial, volatile Burton s Legal Thesaurus …

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  • 35shallow — (adj.) c.1400, schalowe not deep, probably from O.E. sceald (see SHOAL (Cf. shoal)). Of breathing, attested from 1875; of thought or feeling, superficial, first recorded 1580s. The noun, usually shallows, is first recorded 1570s, from the… …

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  • 36shallow — adj *superficial, cursory, uncritical Analogous words: slim, slight, slender, *thin: trivial, trifling, *petty, paltry: empty, hollow, idle, *vain …

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  • 37Shallow water blackout — A shallow water blackout is a loss of consciousness caused by cerebral hypoxia towards the end of a breath hold dive in water typically shallower than five metres (16 feet), when the swimmer does not necessarily experience an urgent need to… …

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  • 38Shallow water equations — The shallow water equations (also called Saint Venant equations after Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint Venant) are a set of hyperbolic partial differential equations that describe the flow below a pressure surface in a fluid (sometimes, but not …

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  • 39Shallow Hal — Infobox Film name = Shallow Hal caption = Shallow Hal movie poster director = Farrelly brothers writer = Farrelly brothers Sean Moynihan starring = Jack Black Gwyneth Paltrow Jason Alexander Joe Viterelli producer = Farrelly brothers Bradley… …

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  • 40shallow — 01. The sign said, Warning: [Shallow] water Do Not Dive. 02. The children were wading around in the warm [shallow] water of the bay, trying to catch fish. 03. The body of an unknown man has been found in a [shallow] grave in a forested area on… …

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