seep

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To diminish or wane away slowly.
4. (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
5. (Scotland) To soak.

Noun

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.

Konzepte

sickern

versickern

tropfen

durchsickern

Synonyme

ooze

leak

filter

exude

trickle

dribble

drip

permeate

penetrate

soak in

appear

come

spill

leach

infiltrate

exudate

osmose

escape

percolate

drop

port wine

run

seepage

soak

soak through

seepage site

sweat

😓

burst

trill

ooze out

seep out

bilge

dip in

soak into

water

🚰

drip into

seep site

irrigate

Übersetzungen

suinter

στάζω

διαρρέω

s’infiltrer

rezumar

sızmak

filtrare

escoar

filtrar

rezumarse

rajar

infiltrer

desprendre

mettre en saumure

brollar

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/siːp/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: *sipen

Geerbt von Altenglisch: sipian

Verwandt mit Mittelniederländisch: sīpen

Verwandt mit Deutsch: seifen

Verwandt mit Latein: sēbum

Verwandt mit Altgriechisch: εἴβω

In summary

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.