Depth

For the 'Alphabet Soup' brief, I was randomly selected the word 'depth'. The main meaning of this word means, the distance from the top or surface to the bottom of something: water of no more than 12 feet in depth. 

However, to further my knowledge of the word, depth  can also have a lot of other meanings such as: 

• complexity and profundity of thought: the book has unexpected depth
• a time when one's negative feelings are at their most intense: she was in the depths of despair
• hidden depths
• the quality of being intense or extreme
• the distance from the top or surface to a specified lower point within it: loosen the soil to a depth of 8 inches.
• the distance from the front to the back of something: the depth of the wardrobe
• intensity of colour: strong lighting will accentuate the depth of colour
• a time considered to be the worst point within a bad period: 4am in the depths of winter
• a remote and inaccessible place: I wish I didn't live in the depths of Devon

On our table, we passed our each others words around and we each wrote down what they made us think of. The words associated with mine were: 

• Sea
• Darkness
• Deep
• In depth
• Hole
• Measurement 
• Sink 

Origin: Late Middle English