braise vs steep

braise

verb
  • To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. 

noun
  • A sauce used for braising. 

  • A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising. 

  • Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream) 

steep

verb
  • To soak or wet thoroughly. 

  • To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in. 

noun
  • A rennet bag. 

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

  • A liquid used in a steeping process 

adj
  • expensive 

  • resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular 

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

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