Steply vs Steple - What's the difference?
steply | steple |
Step by step; stepmeal; gradually; in steps; stepwise.
*1914 , Geological Survey of Canada, Summary report - Geological Survey Department :
*1915 , Current history and Forum:
*1949 , Edmund Maute Spieker, The transition between the Colorado Plateaus and the Great Basin :
*1969 , Geological Survey (U.S.), U.S. Geological Survey professional paper :
*1992 , International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences. Congress, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS proceedings, 1992 :
Stepwise; gradual.
*1968 , International Measurement Congress, International Measurements Conference, Acta IMEKO :
As an adverb steply
is step by step; stepmeal; gradually; in steps; stepwise.As an adjective steply
is stepwise; gradual.As a noun steple is
.steply
English
Adverb
(en-adv)- It was also supposed bv Clapp that the steply -dipping sandstones and shales exposed along the Chemainus river and forming the base of Mount Prevost were unconformably overlain by the gently dipping conglomerates [...]
- Away to the southwest, beyond the patches of firwood and the gray, steply rolling land, there toned the far diapason of artillery; strings of army transport, Red Cross vehicles, and miscellaneous men straggled upon the road.
- Crossbedding in the gray sandstones shows that it is now right side up, and in Flagstaff time it was therefore on the east flank of a steply folded anticline.
- Some of the most significant Paleozoic inliers occur near Las Delicias in southwestern Coahuila, 480 km (300 miles) south of the Marathon region, where a thick sequence of marine Permian with volcanic components has been steply folded [...]
- For an instance, the disadventages about the die CAD system are as the following: * CAD technique can only participate in the design process partially and steply .
Adjective
(en-adj)- The electron-hole pairs produced on this way cause a steply rise of the reverse current (i.e. field emission).