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steep
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)
- Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
- (informal) expensive
- (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
- 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum
- (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)
- 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
- 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
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)
- (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.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower
- (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)
- A liquid used in a steeping process
- Corn steep has many industrial uses.
- A rennet bag.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Estep, Tepes, speet, teeps, tepes
steep From the web:
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perpendicular
English
Etymology
From Middle French perpendiculaire, from Old French perpendiculer, from Latin perpendiculum (“plumb line”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.p?n?d?k.j?.l?(?)/ enPR: pû"p?nd?'ky?l?(r),
- (US) IPA(key): /p?.p?n?d?k.ju.l?/, /p?.p?n?d?k.j?.l?/
- Rhymes: -?kj?l?(?)
Adjective
perpendicular (comparative more perpendicular, superlative most perpendicular)
- (geometry) at or forming a right angle (to something).
- Synonyms: normal, orthogonal
- Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
- Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- 2019 May 31, David M. Willis, "Wrangled", Dumbing of Age:
- Hey, I'm not unsabotaging anything! This is completely perpendicular sabotage!
- 2019 May 31, David M. Willis, "Wrangled", Dumbing of Age:
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
perpendicular (plural perpendiculars)
- (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
- A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
- (obsolete, slang) A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.
Translations
See also
- ? (This symbol can be pronounced “perp” when used as a subscript of a letter representing a vector.)
Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin perpendicul?ris, from perpendiculum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /p??.p?n.di.ku?la/
- (Central) IPA(key): /p?r.p?n.di.ku?la/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /pe?.pen.di.ku?la?/
Adjective
perpendicular (masculine and feminine plural perpendiculars)
- perpendicular
Derived terms
- perpendicularment
Noun
perpendicular f (plural perpendiculars)
- perpendicular
Further reading
- “perpendicular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “perpendicular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “perpendicular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “perpendicular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin perpendicul?ris, from perpendiculum.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /p??.p?.di.ku.?la?/
- Hyphenation: per?pen?di?cu?lar
Adjective
perpendicular (plural perpendiculares, comparable)
- perpendicular
Noun
perpendicular f (plural perpendiculares)
- perpendicular
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
From French perpendiculaire
Noun
perpendicular f (plural perpendiculare)
- perpendicular
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin perpendicul?ris, from perpendiculum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe?pendiku?la?/, [pe?.p?n?.d?i.ku?la?]
Adjective
perpendicular (plural perpendiculares)
- perpendicular
Derived terms
- perpendicularmente
perpendicular From the web:
- what perpendicular lines
- what perpendicular mean
- what perpendicular lines look like
- what perpendicular sides
- what perpendicular lines form
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