Pervious vs Seep - What's the difference?
pervious | seep |
Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
* Alexander Pope
Accepting of new ideas.
Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface
moisture that seeps out; a seepage
A seafloor vent
As an adjective pervious
is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.As a noun seep is
a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (eg water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface.As a verb seep is
to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings.pervious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a pervious soil
- [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
- (Prior)
