seep

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 sēp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
  2. Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
  3. The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
  4. A seafloor vent.
    — Another idea was that filamentous bacteria covering the hairs [of the Yeti crab] would either neutralize gases emitted from the vent or serve the crab directly as a food source. And this last idea received support when a second species of Yeti crab was discovered on cold seeps on the deep-sea floor near Costa Rica.
动词 v.
  1. To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. intransitive
    — Water has seeped through the roof.
  2. To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. figuratively,intransitive
    — Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.
  3. To diminish or wane away slowly. figuratively,intransitive
    — The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.
  4. (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak. transitive
    — The crack is seeping water.
  5. To soak. Scotland
    — wi' the weet / We're seepit to the skin

词形变化

seeps present,singular,third-person seeping participle,present seeped participle,past seeped past seeps plural

词汇关系

近义词
leak
衍生词
seeper seepweed seepy seep mudalia
相关词
sip siphon

词源

词源 1
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
词源 2
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”).
See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.
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