fathoming
61oceanography — Synonyms and related words: altimetry, aquiculture, bathometry, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, cartography, chorography, craniometry, depth sounding, echo sounding, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, geodesy, geodetics,… …
62sonar — Synonyms and related words: astronavigation, bathometry, bathymetry, celestial navigation, chronometer, coastwise navigation, consolan, dead reckoning, depth sounding, echo sounding, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, fix, line of position,… …
63sounding — Synonyms and related words: bathometry, bathymetry, booming, chiming, depth sounding, dinging, droning, echo sounding, echoic, echoing, echolocation, fathomage, fathoming, growling, jingling, lingering, monotone, monotonic, oceanography, pealing …
64fathom — {{11}}fathom (n.) O.E. fæðm length of the outstretched arm (a measure of about six feet), also arms, grasp, and, figuratively power, from P.Gmc. *fathmaz embrace (Cf. O.N. faðmr embrace, bosom, O.S. fathmos the outstretched arms, Du. vadem a… …
65fathom — verb 1) Charlotte tried to fathom her cat s expression Syn: understand, comprehend, work out, make sense of, grasp, divine, puzzle out, get to the bottom of; interpret, decipher, decode; informal make head(s) or tail(s) of, crack 2) fathoming the …
66fathom — vb Fathom, sound, plumb all mean to measure the depth (as of a body of water) typically with a weighted line. Fathom implies a measuring in fathoms (units of six feet). Sound typically suggests the use of a sounding line in measuring, but it may… …
67fath´om|er — fath|om «faTH uhm», noun, plural fath|oms or (collectively) fath|om, verb. –n. a unit of measure equal to 6 feet. It is used mostly in measuring the depth of water and the length of ships ropes or cables: »The ship sank in 10 fathoms. Full fathom …
68fath|om — «faTH uhm», noun, plural fath|oms or (collectively) fath|om, verb. –n. a unit of measure equal to 6 feet. It is used mostly in measuring the depth of water and the length of ships ropes or cables: »The ship sank in 10 fathoms. Full fathom five… …
69BEATITUDE — (Heb. הַצְלָחָה, haẓlaḥah; osher), the blissful state of the soul in the World to Come (olam ha ba ) that constitutes the ultimate end of human life. Medieval Jewish philosophy fused rabbinic religious ethics and eschatology with the teleological …
70PROPHETS AND PROPHECY — This article is arranged according to the following outline: in the bible classifications nature of prophecy origin and function dreams divination pre classical prophets terminology group prophecy ecstasy group life of prophets role in society… …
