different between dep vs nep

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of department, originally slang from Imperial College, first attested c. 1930.

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

1. Short for department.

Etymology 2

• Abbreviation of several terms that begin with "dep".
• Clipping of several terms that begin with "dep".

Alternative forms

• dep.
• (Canada): dép, dép.

Noun

dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)

1. Short for deposit.
2. Short for departure.
3. (law, informal) A deposition.

   Don't worry too much if they don’t give us everything we need in their rog answers; we'll fill the gaps in dep.

4. (informal) A deputy.
   • 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz

     [A]s soon as the door opened we could see it was the deputy governor coming through. […] We watched as the dep crossed the football field towards us.

5. (Canada, Quebec, informal) A dépanneur.
6. (computing, informal) A dependency.

See also

• sensory dep
• sleep dep

Verb

dep (third-person singular simple present deps, present participle depping, simple past and past participle depped)

1. (informal) To deputize.
   • 2004, John Chilton, Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition (page 212)

     Regularly with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band for almost a year in the late 1990s and later deputized in the band, including a tour of Denmark (2003), also depped in Chris Barber's Band for Swedish tour (2001).

Verb

dep

1. depart or departs
2. deposed

Anagrams

• -ped, DPE, EDP, EPD, PDE, PED, Pde, ped

French

Etymology

Verlan for pédé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/

Noun

dep m (plural deps)

1. (verlan) gay; faggot

Middle English

Adjective

dep

1. Alternative form of depe

Adverb

dep

1. Alternative form of depe

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”).

Alternative forms

• nip (dialectal)

Noun

nep (usually uncountable, plural neps)

1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:

     Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneb?- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.

Noun

nep (plural neps)

1. (Britain, dialect) A knot in a fibre of cotton.

Anagrams

• PEN, PNe, Pen, pen

Ainu

Etymology

From ne (“interrogatory root”) +? p (“thing”). See nekon, nen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ne?p]

Pronoun

nep (Kana spelling ???)

1. (interrogative) what

Usage notes

Less common in spoken language than hemanta.

Synonyms

• hemanta

See also

Dutch

Etymology

From German Nepp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/
• Hyphenation: nep
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

nep m (uncountable)

1. imitation, fake

Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

1. fake, not real
2. artificial, not natural

Inflection

Some Dutch speakers may consider attributive use of this adjective informal. Thus, the inflected form neppe is not very commonly used in more formal language. In such language, the word is used more often in compounds formed by prefixing with nep-. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Synonyms

• namaak

Antonyms

• authentiek
• echt
• natuurlijk

Derived terms

• nepneutraliteit
• nepnieuws
• nepperd
• nepvlees

Anagrams

• pen

Middle English

Noun

nep

1. Alternative form of nap (“drinking bowl”)