英语词汇“steep”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	steep
释义	steep I. \ˈstēp\ adjective (-er/-est) Etymology: Middle English stepe, from Old English stēap high, steep, deep; akin to Old English stēap cup, Old Frisian stāp steep, Old High German stouf high rock, cup, Middle High German stief steep, Old Norse staup lump, knoll, hole in a road, cup 1. : lofty, tall, elevated, high — used chiefly of a sea < ships steaming into steep head seas — Manual of Seamanship > < the elusive periscope almost impossible to detect in such steep seas — Stanley Rogers > 2. a. : making a large angle with the plane of the horizon : having a side or slope approaching the perpendicular : precipitous < steep hills > < a steep road > < area of cleared, steep ground — Evan Williams > b. of twill : having an angle greater than 45 degrees in the twill line 3. a. : mounting or falling precipitously : headlong < a steep flight of stairs > b. : characterized by a very rapid decline or increase < the steep but comparatively brief depression — Clark Warburton > < the persistently steep fall in immigration — Peter Scott > < a period of steep decline in our literary standards — Malcolm Cowley > 4. : having precipitious or sharply pitched sides < a steep roof > < its steep wooded valleys — R.M.Lockley > 5. : difficult to accept, meet, or perform : arduous, extreme, excessive, exorbitant, incredible < a steep story > < a steep tax > < prices are rather steep > < a steep task > Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, sheer: steep describes a slope or pitch likely to make ascent difficult or descent or fall sharp, rapid, rushing < the trail … then struck up the side of the mountain, growing steeper every foot of the way — H.D.Quillin > < a slope of water so steep that it made me giddy — R.L.Stevenson > abrupt may apply to sudden protuberance or declivity, to sharply broken angles or levels < occasionally the hills slope gently to the waterline, but more often the highlands rise into abrupt cliffs — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < high abrupt banks in places become hanging cliffs with a drop of 100 feet or more — American Guide Series: North Carolina > precipitous applies to inclines next to impossible to climb by ordinary procedures, to those approaching the perpendicular < a mountainous region, fronting the Pacific, to which it presents, abruptly, a precipitous escarpment — American Guide Series: Oregon > < a deep gorge, with precipitous, volcanic walls which no man could scale — Jack London > sheer may suggest an unbroken perpendicular expanse < sheer cliffs that fell from the summit to the plain, more than a thousand feet — Willa Cather > < a sheer drop of 224 feet into a pool at the base of an overhanging cliff — American Guide Series: Oregon > II. adverb : steeply < the cliff rises steep behind it — Edmund Wilson > < the roof … was pitched very steep to shed water — American Guide Series: Connecticut > — often used in combination < steep-ascending > III. noun (-s) : a precipitous place : a steep ascent or descent : an object having a steep side or slope < too many thickets and swamps and steeps for practical traveling off the roads — G.W.Brace > < when the toiling cyclists climbed that steep they had the flat road … in front of them — O.S.J.Gogarty > IV. intransitive verb Etymology: -ed/-ing/-s : slope; especially : to slope abruptly < now the angle of ascent steeped sharply — J.R.Ullman > V. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English stepen; akin to Swedish stöpa to steep, Danish stöbe, and probably to Old English stēap cup — more at steep I *transitive verb* 1. a. : to soak or let stand in a liquid at a temperature under the boiling point (as for the purpose of cleansing, softening, bleaching, extracting a flavor, or germinating) : infuse, macerate < rice grains are usually steeped in a solution of sodium hydroxide > < steep coffee > < steep barley > b. : to soak (corn kernels) in warm water usually containing a very small amount of sulfur dioxide in the manufacture of starch by the wet milling process c. : to soak (cellulose pulp) in a dilute solution of sodium hydroxide for the production of alkali cellulose 2. : bathe, wet, immerse, moisten < steeped my wrists and laved my temples — R.L.Stevenson > 3. : to saturate thoroughly : imbue < the world was all steeped in sunshine — D.H.Lawrence > < a man steeped in the art of the past — Aline B. Saarinen > < they continued to steep themselves in the classics — Gilbert Highet > < the annals of those steeped in crime — Ellen Smith > *intransitive verb* : to undergo the process of soaking in a liquid (as water) under the boiling point < the tea is steeping > < rosemary … steeping in vinegar — J.H.Wheelwright > VI. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English stepe, from stepen to steep 1. : the state or process of being steeped < put barley in steep for forty-eight hours > 2. : a bath or solution in which something is steeped (as in dyeing or cleansing) 3. : a tank in which a material (as corn or rice) is steeped < the shelled corn is soaked in a steep before milling > < the rice starch from the steep is purified > VII. adjective Etymology: steep (V) : used for steeping < steep tank > < steep tub >
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