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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steep
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a steep dive (=going down suddenly)
▪ The fighter plane went into a steep dive.
a steep slope
▪ I struggled to keep from slipping on the steep slope.
at a slight/steep angle
▪ The sign leaned over at a slight angle.
be steeped in history (=be closely connected with important events in history)
▪ Cambridge is steeped in history and tradition.
be steeped in tradition (=have many traditions)
▪ It is an area of the country steeped in tradition.
deep/steep
▪ a bridge across a deep valley
sharp/steep fall
▪ the sharp fall in the birth rate in European countries
sharp/steep (=by a large amount)
▪ The higher prices caused a sharp decline in sales.
sharp/steep (=great and sudden)
▪ There’s been a sharp rise in house prices.
steep learning curve (=they had to learn very quickly)
▪ Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve .
steep (=sloping at a high angle)
▪ The cliffs were steep and dangerous.
steep
▪ A steep path led down to the harbour.
steep
▪ She pushed her bicycle up the steep hill.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The latter were constructed to both conserve moisture and to reduce soil erosion and occur on slopes as steep as 25°.
less
▪ Heavy industry was quailing before foreign competition, but the decline in traditional female areas of work was less steep.
▪ Undaunted, she added more track to make the incline less steep and the ending less abrupt.
▪ The middle course valleys are broader and the valley sides are less steep than in the upper course.
▪ There are very few, if any, abrupt breaks in climate, only steeper and less steep climatic gradients.
much
▪ The taper for withdrawing council tax benefit is much steeper.
▪ Then there is a much steeper drop up to 2,000 fathoms.
▪ Hick Hooper's attack was much steeper than anybody else's.
so
▪ Higher up the vegetation thinned out, but the climb was so steep I didn't care to look down.
▪ The road now led down a gully so steep that Jim Yellow Earring was thrown forward.
▪ The climb was so steep that in places it could be made only with the help of ropes.
▪ Round this way it's not so steep.
▪ As pits become deeper they must also become wider in order to prevent the sides from becoming so steep they are unstable.
too
▪ Suddenly, the boar had been faced with a cliff too steep to climb and had turned on its heel.
▪ For some medical ethicists, those prices are too steep for a service whose value is unknown.
▪ Builders had put the ramp in free of charge, but the council said it was too steep.
▪ Big Round Top was too steep and rocky for this.
▪ The rock above me was too steep for any animal to find foothold on.
▪ The slopes of the valley sides are often too steep to cultivate.
▪ Slope: what proportion of the farm is too steep to work safely or economically?
▪ Angle of ladder too steep. 54.
up
▪ But that's through high trees and up steep hills.
▪ The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors, up steep, dark steps!
▪ Right: Front-pointing up steep, lean ice.
▪ I never rode around bends or up steep hills.
▪ I walked up steep fields on to Wenlock Edge.
▪ Then we were taken up steep narrow logging roads into the mountains of Boras.
very
▪ Already there was a very steep drop and as she looked up her heart almost stopped.
▪ A very steep paths leads down from the summit.
▪ Where the coast has deep water offshore a fall in base level means the formation of a vertical or very steep cliff.
▪ If the pool sides are vertical or very steep, it may be necessary to erect some kind of formwork.
▪ The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses.
▪ Much of the hill ground had been ploughed and reseeded - some on very steep slopes.
▪ The wave should be very steep to encourage a more vertical flight as you take off.
▪ Soon the path led him down a very steep hillside.
■ NOUN
angle
▪ Sometimes it can be a steeper angle than somewhere else.
▪ The second bullet was fired from close to where Doyle was lying, and at a very steep angle.
▪ He had a beard and his forehead sloped back at a steep angle.
▪ In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised.
▪ In two species examined the crystals lie parallel to the surface and in another two they lie at a steep angle.
ascent
▪ It's a steep ascent but the compensation is a swift gaining of the ridge.
▪ From here to the top was a steep ascent of some five hundred yards, covered with large rocks and fallen timber.
▪ Follow the path west passing over a high stile and making a steep ascent to the summit of Y Garn.
▪ At the foot of the last steep ascent..
▪ Not until I began to feel the horses straining up the steep ascent to our house did I open my eyes.
bank
▪ Too late she remembered about the steep bank behind her and stepped into thin air.
▪ There he helped her up the steep bank, while the boy without a jacket carried the baby who wore it.
▪ He was doing wheelies on a steep bank with a wire fence at the top.
▪ He set the traps carefully under mossy logs, under grass overhanging like curtains along steep banks, and in brush piles.
▪ The tenement reared up, a coaly silhouette flaring red, from the steep bank below them.
▪ The fog of the Golden Gate has piled up along the steep bank behind our house, engulfing our neighborhood in vapor.
▪ Several rare ferns grow on the steep banks of the burn where it runs into the lake.
▪ He says that the kingfishers need a steep bank to nest in, running water, plenty of fish.
cliff
▪ Finally the sea encroached on this topography producing steep cliffs, inlets, sea stacks and sandy or shingly beach deposits.
▪ Where the coast has deep water offshore a fall in base level means the formation of a vertical or very steep cliff.
▪ Without mountain ranges, steep cliffs or rough and bumpy cross-country routes, there are seldom natural features such as corkscrew bends.
▪ They occupy a cove with the sea and steep cliffs behind them and a sailing boat anchored to the right.
climb
▪ A steeper climb of around 500% occurred between 1960 and 1975 bringing the average to £20,000.
▪ Then came June and the steep climb in the number of cases that climaxed in August or September.
▪ There are also some steeper climbs behind the village.
▪ How such a venture was ever worthwhile is debatable for it had the disadvantage of the steep climb from the pavement.
▪ A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau.
▪ Despite its steep climbs, the journey seemed easy.
▪ Cable cars, chairlifts and mountain railways take the strain out of steep climbs and allow relaxing walks on the mountain summits.
▪ If the glider is in a very steep climb this should be reduced slightly before yawing.
decline
▪ Early in 1982, before El Chichón erupted, a steep decline in temperature set in.
▪ Their steep decline has given grim satisfaction to their legions of detractors.
▪ London shares dropped sharply, dragged down by steep declines on Wall Street Tuesday and in early dealings yesterday.
▪ And the new geography of this steeper decline can be picked out from Table 2.2.
▪ More recently there has been a steep decline in the support for political union.
descent
▪ If the model is set up correctly, it should make a steep descent under full control.
▪ The Robinson 22 light helicopter was on an auto-gyration practice flight when the tail rotor touched the ground during a steep descent.
▪ The plane had gone into a steep descent and an explosion ripped the air.
dive
▪ He naturally tried to recover from the steep dive before striking the ground.
▪ This, not his ethical problems, caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.
▪ There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries.
drop
▪ I saw the frightened horses on the edge of a steep drop.
▪ Big Thunder is weak as roller coasters go with no steep drops or loops.
▪ On his second wave he took a steep drop and his nose dug in.
▪ The index earlier was down 100 points, its steepest drop since Dec. 18.
▪ Already there was a very steep drop and as she looked up her heart almost stopped.
▪ The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop.
▪ Then there is a much steeper drop up to 2,000 fathoms.
▪ Turn right, with a steep drop on the left where the path descends towards the Upper Neuadd reservoir.
fall
▪ Whether the steep falls of yesterday turn into something more serious remains to be seen.
▪ Separately, shares in forestry companies declined amid forecasts of a steep fall in cellulose prices, analysts said.
▪ The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously.
▪ The latter's performance is attributed to steep falls in smoking.
▪ Two rival companies, Toshiba and Hitachi, saw a steep fall in profits.
gradient
▪ The railway bridge at this point represented the steepest gradient on the whole system at 1:16.
▪ The steepest gradient is 3.3 %, and the minimum curve radius is 400m.
▪ There were some steep gradients, particularly Anerley Hill, leading up the Crystal Palace.
▪ The main objects of this alignment are to achieve a short wheel base, and a fairly steep gradient.
▪ The road, curving round the sides of the hills, indulged in dizzying bends and steep gradients.
hill
▪ But that's through high trees and up steep hills.
▪ The cattle were driven up and down the steep hill each spring and fall, well into the early 1940s.
▪ It stretches up a steep hill and overlooks the rivers Tay and Earn.
▪ Set into a steep hill green with trees, they look out upon the sea.
▪ It then climbs the inevitably steep hill back up to Alum chine on the return leg to Bournemouth.
▪ After lunch, he and Barnabas walked up the steep hill to Fernbank.
▪ The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to.
▪ Wearing a pair of tennis shoes, he walked up the steep hill with the energy of a young mountain climber.
hillside
▪ The upper part of the village of Whittington lies on the south-east slope of a steep hillside.
▪ They can be installed on steep hillsides.
▪ Thorn said that midsummer sunset was observed from a small platform on a steep hillside overlooking the stone.
▪ The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses.
▪ Soon the path led him down a very steep hillside.
▪ A similar system was also used in the West Country on steep hillsides from the seventeenth century onwards.
▪ An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff.
incline
▪ After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift!
▪ The slow gradient ended when the road climbed the steepest incline I had yet encountered.
▪ They continued on, up the steep incline and into the castle.
▪ Although her descent down the steep incline took several minutes, the queue at the foot remained motionless.
increase
▪ At the time, both departments were understood to be concerned about potential tax losses and a steep increase in collection costs.
▪ However, he accompanied the tax cuts with steep increases in government spending, especially in the area of defense.
mountain
▪ It is a large village in open meadowland at the head of the Ziller Valley, and is surrounded by steep mountains.
▪ Many of the larger craters in both the highlands and mare basins display clusters or rings of steep mountains at their centers.
▪ Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles.
▪ Arizona is filled with steep mountains and countless cliffs.
path
▪ A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow.
▪ A very steep paths leads down from the summit.
▪ On the steep path to the fortress the fires still burned.
▪ I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village.
▪ Leading the animal by its reins, she descended the steep path towards the place of tents.
▪ I walk down the steep path to the harbour.
▪ Some men would already be at the boats, others coming down the steep path from the village.
▪ A young girl skips down the steep path with a small sack of potatoes.
price
▪ I notice that the steepest price rises in past years have been in pubs tied to the national brewers.
▪ The ban on local sale of newsprint to Nasa Borba makes it necessary to import it from abroad at steep prices.
▪ Phil Gramm ignored the warning and paid a steep price.
▪ Those who do make it pay the steep price of assimilation.
▪ Analysts say the steep price markdowns that retailers took all month will exact a heavy toll on profits.
▪ Professional publishing packages are available at fairly steep prices.
rise
▪ He has already triggered a steep rise in transfer market prices by proving such a bargain at £2.5 million.
▪ Set back from the road on quite a steep rise was a new ranch-style house.
rock
▪ He believes reversing moves on steep rock is an excellent training device.
▪ I swam out between the steep rocks to the open sea.
▪ High winds and steep rocks make landing hazardous, and the smell of guano deposits can be significant!
side
▪ Okawi had prepared the hunting canoes and was now praying over their steep sides.
▪ She scaled its steep side in breathless haste.
▪ We reached a rocky edge from which a steep side fell away.
▪ Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures.
▪ He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees.
▪ With its steep sides, flat impermeable rock floor and narrow bottle-neck shape, it was an ideal site for a reservoir.
▪ Ponds or garden pools with steep sides are lethal traps.
▪ She was tied to the wheel of a chariot and sent down the steep sides of one of the great hills.
slope
▪ Coffee was cultivated on the steep slopes while housing and processing plants were located on flatter ridges.
▪ The evergreens' roots sought anchoring crevices at the rocky summits, and clung precariously to the steep slopes.
▪ Beyond there the gorge walls are often vertical or steep slopes of rubble, impassable whatever the season.
▪ They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
▪ The small village appears to be under constant threat of a landslide from the steep slopes immediately behind.
▪ You will see it as a great mound becoming visible at the bottom of a steep slope that you are descending.
▪ High tide is often positively dangerous, with vicious dumping waves breaking on the steep slope of the upper beach.
▪ I see narrow roads contoured into the sides of steep slopes.
stair
▪ I run between the concrete pillars holding up the elevated railway, on to the steep stairs.
▪ Bob balks at the steep stairs.
▪ Size, the presence of steep stairs, dampness, and difficulty to heat, may mean that property is inappropriate.
▪ Dismissed properly, they sprang into motion and took the steep stairs in a single leap.
▪ I had to drag Tom's pram up eighteen steep stairs.
turn
▪ Practising aerobatics and spinning will help to overcome any misgivings you may have about flying in steep turns at low speeds.
▪ It is fun to practise pulling up into a climb and trying to establish an accurate, low-speed, steep turn.
▪ Less than a mile to go and the road rounds a steep turn.
▪ But a steep turn, below, reveals a portly frame and dated antecedents.
▪ I immediately went into a steep turn to port to attack them again.
▪ On most gliders that will mean less than 50 knots, which you may think rather slow for a steep turn.
wall
▪ Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock, at the grass and weeds at its foot.
▪ Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it.
▪ Just left of the needle is a steep wall with two lines for those who like bold climbing.
▪ Further to the right the cliff becomes rather nondescript until a shallow, right-facing corner offers access to a fine steep wall.
▪ Now they were steep walls of water dropping like guillotines on to the reef.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I think £7 for a drink is a bit steep, don't you?
▪ It's hard to find an apartment around here, and when you do the rents are pretty steep.
▪ The road's too steep to ride up on a bike.
▪ The show is Sunday, July 27, and though tickets are somewhat steep at $27, it should be well worth seeing.
▪ They've proposed a steep increase in the cigarette tax.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Below us the narrow road twisted upon itself as it began to climb up through the steep foothills.
▪ I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village.
▪ It is possible that the steep age gradient observed in Figure 5.1 is mainly due to these factors.
▪ National Championship hopefuls have to master their craft in high winds and steep swell.
▪ The rest of the film shows their ordeal as they make repeated assaults on the steep, mud-slick, heavily fortified hill.
▪ To my right lies a steep slope.
▪ We edged up along a steep, snowy ridge and over the heaven-scraped granite to the top.
▪ With regard to the gradients, Leathart must have had in mind the steep section of the Deep Level.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
history
▪ Both are clifftop courses that are steeped in history.
▪ In his new job at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Stacy is joining a metropolitan college steeped in history.
▪ They brought with them a heritage and culture that is steeped in history and literature.
▪ The Hotel has great character and is steeped in history.
▪ The feud is steeped in bitter Balkan history.
tradition
▪ It's not exactly steeped in tradition is it?
▪ Craving a meal steeped in tradition?
▪ Most parents, and not only black ones, are steeped in their old traditions, the old ways of doing things.
▪ The staff writers seem to be a conglomeration of music diehards steeped in the traditions of classic rock.
▪ Deerfield in the late fifties was a conservative school steeped in tradition.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a child, Tucson physician Lewis Mehl-Madrona was steeped in the traditional healing practices of his Cherokee grandmother.
▪ Craving a meal steeped in tradition?
▪ His father is steeped in horses, hunts with the South Tetcott and is also involved with team chasing.
▪ In fact, this was 1956: I was steeped in developing short story writing and interests that went with that.
▪ They brought with them a heritage and culture that is steeped in history and literature.
▪ Top with lid and allow lemons to steep for 2 weeks at room temperature before using.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
steep

brasilein \bra*sil"e*in\, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Brasque \Brasque\, n. [F.] (Metal.) A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
steep

"having a sharp slope," Old English steap "high, lofty; deep; prominent, projecting," from Proto-Germanic *staupaz (cognates: Old Frisian stap "high, lofty," Middle High German *stouf), from PIE *steup-, extended form of root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat," with derivations referring to projecting objects (cognates: Greek typtein "to strike," typos "a blow, mold, die;" Sanskrit tup- "harm," tundate "pushes, stabs;" Gothic stautan "push;" Old Norse stuttr "short"). The sense of "precipitous" is from c.1200. The slang sense "at a high price" is a U.S. coinage first attested 1856. Related: Steeply; steepness. The noun meaning "steep place" is from 1550s.

steep

"to soak in a liquid," early 14c., of uncertain origin, originally in reference to barley or malt, probably cognate with Old Norse steypa "to pour out, throw" (perhaps from an unrecorded Old English cognate), from Proto-Germanic *staupijanan. Related: Steeped; steeping.

Wiktionary
steep

Etymology 1

  1. 1 Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical. 2 (context informal English) expensive 3 (context obsolete English) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high. 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 Etymology 2

    n. 1 A liquid used in a steeping process 2 A rennet bag. v

  2. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove components to or from the item 2 (context intransitive English) To imbue with something.

WordNet
steep

  1. adj. having a sharp inclination; "the steep attic stairs"; "steep cliffs" [ant: gradual]

  2. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious]

  3. of a slope; set at a high angle; "note the steep incline"; "a steep roof sheds snow"

steep

n. a steep place (as on a hill)

steep

  1. v. engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up]

  2. let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol" [syn: infuse]

Wikipedia
Steep

Steep may refer to:

  • Slope, an elementary mathematical concept
  • Steeping, a cooking technique employing soaking
Steep (film)

Steep is a 2007 documentary about extreme skiing written and directed by Mark Obenhaus. Steep explores the history of extreme and Big Mountain Skiing, starting with its roots in 1960s and 1970s North America and Europe, with Bill Briggs' now famous first descent of the Grand Teton, and progressing through to the current day sport.

Steep was shot in High Definition and on film in a number of locations including Alaska, France, Canada and Iceland. Steep made its premiere in the Spotlight Section of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. In North America, Steep was acquired by Sony Classics and released to DVD on 18 March 2008.

Steep (video game)

Steep is an upcoming open world extreme sports video game developed by Ubisoft Annecy and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game places a great emphasis on online multiplayer, focusing on competing in various winter sporting challenges with other players online. The game is set to be released in December 2016.

Usage examples of "steep".

The allosaurs too went into steep decline across the supercontinent as their prey animals became scarce.

The true Nile, the Eastern Nile, is less a river than a sinuous lake encumbered with islets and sandbanks, and its navigable channel winds capriciously between them, flowing with a strong and steady current below the steep, black banks cut sheer through the alluvial earth.

Slade chuckled and turned to look at the slow barque, forging steadily southward toward the steep slope of Guia Head.

He stripped again and waded the channel, dressed in the thickets of the batture, and climbed the steep clay bank, to stand with the cold steady wind flapping and pulling at his clothing, looking down over the dark green acres of cane in the heatless light.

Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.

Crushed leaves of star boronia, steeped, wash away soreness of the sinews.

In a loose mob, they spurred their ponies past the stymied cars and, brandishing their rifles above their heads, robes streaming in the wind like battle ensigns, they lunged up the steep bank into the open and galloped furiously on to the flank of the scattered Italian column.

Going a little to one side, the hillsman pushed through a thick hedge of bushes, rolled away a rock, and disclosed an opening which led down a steep and rough-hewn way to a great misty valley beneath, where was never a bridle-path or causeway over the brawling streams and boulders.

The steep brecciated walls of the crater had become the canvases for their new artform, which they had pursued for some twenty or thirty years, back before the turn of the century.

Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet.

Sugar Spring, and from there up Spirit Canyon the climb was so tedious and steep that Brit took a full hour for the trip, resting the team often because they were soft from the new grass diet and sweated easily.

He climbed again the steep mountain-side and on top he was amongst many boulders, and the tussocked grasses and the burrawangs were such as he had never seen before.

One stept lightly on, and drew the bench which had lately pillowed the head of Lovel, closer to the fire, while the other, bending under the burthen in her arms, approached slower, and sitting down on the seat prepared for her, threw back her cloak, and discovered that she bore in her arms a sleeping child, about six years of age.

George gestured for them to follow the steep path around to the front drive, explaining that the side doors were already locked.

By the time they topped the last long hill that led down to the city, the steep slate roofs rising like a stone forest from the paler stones of the houses, the royal residence sitting on its artificial hill to the north as though it floated above the ordinary world, they could see the crowds gathering along the Horsegate Road.