fathom

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.

   “[T]he ſhipmen deemed that they drew neere to ſome countrey: And ſounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they ſounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.”

2. isim An internationally standardized version of this unit, the international fathom (= 1.8288 metres = 6 feet).
3. isim A measure of distance to shore: the nearest point to shore at which the water depth is the value quoted.

   “After we'd rowed for an hour, we found ourselves stranded ten fathoms from shore.”

4. isim An unspecified depth.
5. isim Depth of insight; mental reach or scope.

   “Another of his fathome they haue not / To leade their buſineſſe, […]”

6. isim The act of stretching out one's arms away from the sides of the torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to the body.
7. isim Someone or something that is embraced.

   “Thy Bride, thy choice, thy vvife, / She that is novv thy fadom, […] Kneele at thy feete, obay in euerie thing, / So euerie Father is a priuate King.”

8. isim Control, grasp.

   “So; novv knovv I vvhere I am, me thinkes already / I graſpe beſt part of the Autumnian bleſſing / In my contentious fadome, […]”

9. fiil To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.
10. fiil To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something.
11. fiil Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.

    “I can’t for the life of me fathom what this means.”

12. fiil To embrace (someone or something).
13. fiil To measure a depth; to sound.
14. fiil To conduct an examination or inquiry; to investigate.