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Seep vs Skep - What's the difference?

seep | skep |

As nouns the difference between seep and skep

is that seep is a small spring, pool, or other place where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface while skep is a basket.

As a verb seep

is to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings.

seep

English

(wikipedia seep)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to ooze, or pass slowly through pores or other small openings

    • Synonyms

    * leak

    See also

    * sip * siphon

    Anagrams

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    skep

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a basket
  • a beehive made of straw or wicker
  • :* 1977': He prised a '''skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons. — Patrick O'Brian, ''The Mauritius Command

    • Derived terms

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