Steepness

Definition

steep 1 /sti:p / adj (-er, -est) ၁။ ေစာက္ေသာ။ မတ္ေသာ။ မတ္ ေစာက္ေသာ။ a steep path, descent/hill/climb/gradient ❍ I never cycle up that hill—it's too steep. ၂။ ထိုးတက္ေသာ (သို႔) ထိုးက်ေသာ။ a steep increase in prices ❍ The economy has gone into a steep decline. ၃။ ( infml ) (ေဈး)ႀကီးလြန္းေသာ။ £2 for a cup of coffee seems a bit steep to me. ❏ steepen /sti:pǝn / v ဆင္ေျခေလွ်ာျမင့္တက္သြား သည္။ ပို၍မတ္ေစာက္သြားသည္(သို႔)ပို၍မတ္ေစာက္ ေအာင္ျပဳသည္။ The path steepens as you climb the hillside. ❏ steeply adv မတ္ေစာက္စြာ။ steepness n [U] steep 2 /sti:p / v စိမ္သည္။ ❏ steep sb/oneself/sth in sth [ PHRV ] ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနသည္ (သို႔) ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံဆည္းပူးသည္။ a city steeped in history ❍ He steeped himself in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. ❏ steep sth in sth [ PHRV ] (စားဖြယ္ကို ႏူးအိလာေစရန္၊ အနံ႔အရသာတစ္ခုခု ထံုမြမ္းရန္) စိမ္ထားသည္။ plums steeped in brandy.

Examples

1. A steep slope/hill/bank/path
2. It was a steep climb out of the valley.
3. Suddenly the plane pitched forwards into a steep dive.
4. A steep rise in oil prices
5. This once abundant species is clearly suffering a steep decline.
6. The track began to climb fairly steeply upwards.
7. Export orders continued to fall steeply.