Marinate vs. Steep

Marinateverb

To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.

‘You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.’;

Steepadjective

Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

‘a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep barometric gradient’;

Marinateverb

To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare (food) by the use of marinade.

Steepadjective

(informal) expensive

‘Twenty quid for a shave? That's a bit steep.’;

Marinateverb

soak in marinade;

‘marinade herring’;

Steepadjective

(obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.

Marinateverb

soak (meat, fish, or other food) in a marinade

‘the beef was marinated in red wine vinegar’;

Steepadjective

(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

‘The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior. [http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070303/news_lz1dd3maynard.html]’;

Marinateverb

(of food) undergo marination

‘leave the meat in a cool place to marinate overnight’;

Steepnoun

The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.

Steepnoun

A liquid used in a steeping process

‘Corn steep has many industrial uses.’;

Steepnoun

A rennet bag.

Steepverb

(ambitransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove components to or from the item

‘They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather.’; ‘The tea is steeping.’;

Steepverb

(intransitive) To imbue with something.

‘a town steeped in history’;

Steepadjective

Bright; glittering; fiery.

‘His eyen steep, and rolling in his head.’;

Steepadjective

Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.

Steepadjective

Difficult of access; not easily reached; lofty; elevated; high.

Steepadjective

Excessive; as, a steep price.

Steepverb

To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.

‘Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.’; ‘In refreshing dew to steepThe little, trembling flowers.’; ‘The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.’;

Steepverb

To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.

Steepnoun

Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.

Steepnoun

A rennet bag.

Steepnoun

A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.

‘We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices.’; ‘Bare steeps, where desolation stalks.’;

Steepnoun

a steep place (as on a hill)

Steepverb

engross (oneself) fully;

‘He immersed himself into his studies’;

Steepverb

let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse;

‘steep the blossoms in oil’; ‘steep the fruit in alcohol’;

Steepadjective

having a sharp inclination;

‘the steep attic stairs’; ‘steep cliffs’;

Steepadjective

greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;

‘exorbitant rent’; ‘extortionate prices’; ‘spends an outrageous amount on entertainment’; ‘usorious interest rate’; ‘unconscionable spending’;

Steepadjective

of a slope; set at a high angle;

‘note the steep incline’; ‘a steep roof sheds snow’;