Shallowname

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  A surname.

shallowadj/ˈʃæləʊ/

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  Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

  • This crater is relatively shallow.
  • Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
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  Extending not far downward.

  • The water is shallow here.
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  Concerned mainly with superficial matters.

  • It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
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  Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.

  • The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
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  Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.

  • shallow learning
  • The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
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  obsoleteNot deep in tone.

  • the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring
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  hobbieslifestylesportsNot far forward, close to the net.

  • Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.
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  Not steep; close to horizontal.

  • a shallow climb
  • a shallow descent

shallownoun/ˈʃæləʊ/

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  A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.

  • The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
  • A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but […]upon shallows of gravel.
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  A fish, the rudd.

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  historicalA costermonger's barrow.

  • You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
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  slangcookingfoodlifestyleA shallow hotel pan.

  • Coordinate term: deep

shallowverb/ˈʃæləʊ/

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  To make or become less deep.

  • The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).