deep (redirected from jumping in at the deep end)

deep

1. Cricket relatively far from the pitch

2. (of a colour) having an intense or dark hue

3. any deep place on land or under water, esp below 6000 metres (3000 fathoms)

4. the deep

a. Cricket the area of the field relatively far from the pitch

5. Nautical one of the intervals on a sounding lead, one fathom apart

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deep [dēp]

(oceanography)

An area of great depth in the ocean, representing a depression in the ocean floor.