Difference between water and seep
Definitions
verb
- supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
- provide with water
- fill with tears
noun
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
- liquid excretory product
- a facility that provides a source of water
- binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
Examples
But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
Definitions
verb
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
Examples
The rest of the explanation seeps out gradually as midnight melts into the early hours.
Chemical seepage has caused untold damage.
Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess.
