seep

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

suinter

s’infiltrer

suintement hydrothermal

suintement de fluide hydrothermal

s'infiltrer

mettre en saumure

infiltrer

Synonymes

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

Traductions

sickern

στάζω

διαρρέω

sızmak

tropfen

rezumar

escoar

filtrare

filtrar

versickern

rezumarse

διαποτίζω

rajar

desprendre

brollar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/siːp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: *sipen

Hérité de ancien anglais: sipian

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: sīpen

Appartenant à allemand: seifen

Appartenant à latin: sēbum

Appartenant à grec ancien: 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.