English fathom

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• Fathom the Bowl — (Roud 880) is an English Drinking song, probably dating from the nineteenth century.ynopsis With a Come all ye opening, the singer invites heroes to join him in praise of punch. There is a catalogue of the ingredients that come from various… …   Wikipedia

• fathom — ► NOUN ▪ a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 metres), used in measuring the depth of water. ► VERB 1) understand after much thought: I can t fathom him out. 2) measure the depth of. DERIVATIVES fathomable adjective fathomless adjective …   English terms dictionary

• English unit — is the American name for a unit in one of a number of systems of units of measurement, some obsolete, and some still in use in present day USA, the UK, and elsewhere. The modern United States customary units system as a whole is not, and has… …   Wikipedia

• Fathom — unit of length m= 1.8288000 accuracy=5 A fathom is a unit of length in the Imperial system (and the derived U.S. customary units), used especially for measuring the depth of water. There are 2 yards (6 feet) in a fathom. Encyclopædia Britannica… …   Wikipedia

• fathom — I. noun Etymology: Middle English fadme, from Old English fæthm outstretched arms, length of the outstretched arms; akin to Old Norse fathmr fathom, Latin patēre to be open, pandere to spread out, Greek petannynai Date: before 12th century 1. a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fathom — fathomable, adj. fathomer, n. /fadh euhm/, n., pl. fathoms, (esp. collectively) fathom, v. n. 1. a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbr.: fath v.t. 2. to measure the depth of by means of a… …   Universalium

• fathom — fath|om1 [ˈfæðəm] n [: Old English; Origin: fAthm] a unit for measuring the depth of water, equal to six feet or about 1.8 metres fathom 2 fathom2 also fathom out v [T] to understand what something means after thinking about it carefully = ↑work… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• fathom — (fth or fath)    a traditional unit of distance equal to 2 yards or 6 feet (approximately 1.829 meters). The word comes from the Old English fæthm, meaning outstretched arms , because a fathom is the distance between a man s outstretched… …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• fathom — /ˈfæðəm / (say fadhuhm) noun (plural fathoms, fathom) 1. a unit of depth in the imperial system equal to 6 ft or 1.8288 m, used in nautical measurements. Symbol: fm –verb (t) 2. to reach in depth by measurement in fathoms; sound; try the depth… …  

• fathom — [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of fathom appears to be ‘stretching out, spreading’. It probably comes ultimately from the Indo European base *pot , *pet , which also produced Latin patēre ‘be open’ (source of English patent) and Greek… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• fathom — [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of fathom appears to be ‘stretching out, spreading’. It probably comes ultimately from the Indo European base *pot , *pet , which also produced Latin patēre ‘be open’ (source of English patent) and Greek… …   Word origins