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What (who) is shallow foundation - definition
Shallow foundation
TYPE OF BUILDING FOUNDATION
Slab-on-grade foundation; Slab-on-grade foundations; Strip foundations; Shallow foundations; Pad foundation; Spread footing; Stepped footing; Floating foundation; Slab on grade; Slab-on-grade
A shallow foundation is a type of building foundation that transfers structural load to the earth very near to the surface, rather than to a subsurface layer or a range of depths, as does a deep foundation. Customarily, a shallow foundation is considered as such when the width of the entire foundation is greater than its depth.
shallow
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Shallow (disambiguation); Shallow (song)
(shallower, shallowest)
1.
A shallow container, hole, or area of water measures only a short distance from the top to the bottom.
Put the milk in a shallow dish...
The water is quite shallow for some distance.
? deep
ADJ
2.
If you describe a person, piece of work, or idea as shallow, you disapprove of them because they do not show or involve any serious or careful thought.
I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy...
ADJ [disapproval]
3.
If your breathing is shallow, you take only a very small amount of air into your lungs at each breath.
She began to hear her own taut, shallow breathing.
? deep
ADJ
shallow
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Shallow (disambiguation); Shallow (song)
¦ adjective
1. of little depth.
2. not showing, requiring, or capable of serious thought.
¦ noun (shallows) a shallow area of water.
¦ verb become shallow.
Derivatives
shallowly adverb
shallowness noun
Origin
ME: obscurely related to shoal2.
Examples of use of shallow foundation
1. We weren‘t just buying clotheslines, washcloths, and dish soap – we were buying our future, and at bargain prices." Yet the early days of Thomas‘s and Alice‘s courtship suffer from a shallow foundation.