steep

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Editorial note

But strike any one of those factors from the list, and watch the curve get steep.

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Quick take

a steep place (as on a hill)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of steep gathered in one view.

noun

a steep place (as on a hill)

verb

devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies"

verb

let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for steep.

noun

a steep place (as on a hill)

verb

devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies"

See also: immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb

verb

let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol"

adjective

having a sharp inclination; "the steep attic stairs"; "steep cliffs"

adjective

greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"

adjective

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

Example sentences

But strike any one of those factors from the list, and watch the curve get steep.

It's much to steep of a price, too much depends on it, for us to abandon it now.

If you steep yourself 100% in startup culture, you'll tend to pick up its cultural pathologies.

In another study, mothers estimated how steep a slope their 11-month-olds could crawl down.

Prison culture is not a healthy culture, and we take the guilty and steep them in that culture for years and then release them back into society.

For a real product, yes. For a product that doesn't exist yet, may turn to vaporware, may be buggy, may end up poorly designed, may be unusably slow, might not be able to operate as well as described, etc etc, $100 might seem a bit steep.

Which editors were available on OS X that weren't giant IDEs or VIM and Emacs style editors that have a ridiculously steep learning curve?I've never understood when people say something or someone doesn't deserve something they've earned.

All right, here is how I feel about vim:If when you say vim you mean the antiquated relic, the impossibly-steep-learning-curve editor, the maddening modal machine, the most discouraging interface, which infuriates experienced users, confounds new users, and yea, literally takes the mouse from your hands and sets it on fire; if you mean the editor that takes every other editor and stomps them into the floor, shouting all the while, "I am better than you!