Marinate vs. Steep — What's the Difference?

Soak (meat, fish, or other food) in a marinade

Having a sharp inclination; precipitous.

To soak (meat, for example) in a marinade.

At a rapid or precipitous rate

To become marinated.

Excessive; stiff

(ergative) To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.

Ambitious; difficult

(intransitive) Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time

A precipitous slope.

To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare (food) by the use of marinade.

The act or process of steeping.

Soak in marinade;

The state of being steeped.

A liquid, bath, or solution in which something is steeped.

To immerse in liquid for a period of time, as to cleanse, treat, or extract a given property from

To involve or preoccupy thoroughly; immerse

To make thoroughly wet; saturate.

To undergo a soaking in liquid

Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

(informal) expensive

(obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.

(of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular

The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.

A liquid used in a steeping process

A rennet bag.

To soak or wet thoroughly.

To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.

To make tea (or other beverage) by placing leaves in hot water.

Bright; glittering; fiery.

Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.

Difficult of access; not easily reached; lofty; elevated; high.

Excessive; as, a steep price.

To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.

To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.

Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.

A rennet bag.

A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.

A steep place (as on a hill)

Engross (oneself) fully;

Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse;

Having a sharp inclination;

Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;

Of a slope; set at a high angle;