different between pep vs zeal

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of pepper (“spice”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

pep (third-person singular simple present peps, present participle pepping, simple past and past participle pepped)

1. (transitive) To inject with energy and enthusiasm.
   • 1995, Faithless (band), Insomnia (song)

     At least a couple of weeks since I last slept,
     Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped.

Derived terms

• pep up

Translations

Noun

pep (countable and uncountable, plural peps)

1. Energy, high spirits.
   • 1972, H. E. Bates, The Song of the Wren

     She was particularly pleased with the wine, which at not infrequent intervals she tasted. Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality. Clearly the long hot summer had put more than a little pep into the berries.

Synonyms

• energy, high spirits, vim

Derived terms

• pep talk

Translations

Anagrams

• EPP, PPE

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pep.

Pronunciation

Noun

pep c (uncountable)

1. (slang) the drug speed

   Synonym: speed

Kombio

Noun

pep

1. water

References

• Henry, Joan. Kombio Grammar Essentials. Ms. 123pp. (1992).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?p/

Verb

pep

1. past tense of pipa.

Volapük

Noun

pep (uncountable peps)

1. pepper (spice)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin z?lus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“to search”). Related to jealous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zil/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

zeal (countable and uncountable, plural zeals)

1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

   Synonyms: ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion

   Antonym: apathy

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Romans 10.2,^[1]

     […] I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

   • 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, London: Jacob Tonson, Part 3, p. 96,^[2]

     Zeal, the blind conductor of the will

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, pp. 143-144,^[3]

     […] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 1, Chapter 14, p. 250,^[4]

     [He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,

   • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 15, p. 248,^[5]

     The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.

2. (obsolete) A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.

   Synonym: zealot

   • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, Act V, Scene 5, p. 85,^[6]

     […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!

   • 1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, p. 5,^[7]

     […] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;

3. The collective noun for a group of zebras.

   Synonyms: dazzle, herd

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Elza, laze, zale