different between dip vs steep

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?p, IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English dippen, from Old English dyppan, from Proto-Germanic *dupjan?; see *daupijan? (“to dip”). Related to deep.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
3. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
   • 1787, Richard Glover, The Athenaid

     the dip of oars in unison

4. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
5. A dip stick.
6. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.

   I'm going for a dip before breakfast.

7. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
   • 1906, Fred L. Boalt, "The Snitcher", McClure's Magazine v.26, p.633

     The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.

8. A sauce for dipping.

   This onion dip is just scrumptious.

9. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
10. (archaic) A dipped candle.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Marryat to this entry?)

11. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader
12. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
13. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
14. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
15. (uncountable) The moist form of snuff tobacco.
16. (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.

Derived terms

• lucky dip

Translations

Verb

dip (third-person singular simple present dips, present participle dipping, simple past and past participle dipped)

1. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.

   Dip your biscuit into your tea.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

2. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.

3. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
4. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.

   Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

5. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.

   “The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.”

6. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.

   The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

7. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
8. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

9. (transitive) To immerse for baptism.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

   • c. 1722, Charles Wheatly, A rational illustration of the Book of Common Prayer

     […] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.

10. (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
11. (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.

    • He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

12. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.

    to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water

13. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
14. (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.

    • Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

15. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
16. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.

    Strata of rock dip.

17. (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
18. To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
19. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.

    He dipped out of the room so fast.

20. (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from dippy.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. A foolish person.

Derived terms

• dipshit

Etymology 3

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

dip (plural dips)

1. (informal) A diplomat.

Related terms

• dip locker

Anagrams

• DPI, IDP, PDI, PID, dpi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/
• Hyphenation: dip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

dip m (plural dippen, diminutive dipje n)

1. A dip (sauce for dipping).

   Synonym: dipsaus

Derived terms

• discodip

Noun

dip m (plural dips, diminutive dipje n)

1. (colloquial) A minor depression, a short-lived sadness.
2. A minor economic setback, no worse than a short, minor recession.

Derived terms

• dinsdagdip

Polish

Etymology

From English dip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dip/

Noun

dip m inan

1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Declension

Further reading

• dip in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

dip m (plural dips)

1. dip (sauce for dipping)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (dip), from Proto-Turkic *t?p (“bottom; root”).

Noun

dip

1. bottom
2. ground

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?p, IPA^(key): /sti?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English steep, from Old English st?ap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz. Compare Old Frisian st?p, Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”).

The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.

Adjective

steep (comparative steeper, superlative steepest)

1. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

2. (informal) expensive

3. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
   • 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum

     Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected

4. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular

Derived terms

• steepen

Synonyms

• (dialectal) brant

Translations

Noun

steep (plural steeps)

1. The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
   • 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy

     It ended precipitously in a dark and narrow ravine, formed on the other side by an opposite mountain, the lofty steep of which was crested by a city gently rising on a gradual slope

Etymology 2

From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijan? (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English st?pian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Doublet of stoop.

Verb

steep (third-person singular simple present steeps, present participle steeping, simple past and past participle steeped)

1. (transitive, middle) To soak or wet thoroughly.
   • 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower

     In refreshing dews to steep / The little, trembling flowers.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.
   • 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue

   The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.

   • 1989, Black 47, Big Fellah:

     We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood / But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood / And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na mBláth / I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all.

Derived terms

• insteep

Translations

Noun

steep (countable and uncountable, plural steeps)

1. A liquid used in a steeping process

   Corn steep has many industrial uses.

2. A rennet bag.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Estep, Tepes, speet, teeps, tepes