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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
leach
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ Parker and Braden have developed soft acrylic materials where the plasticiser does not leach out, but these have other problems.
▪ I would sweat so hard that my shirt collar turned white from the salt leached out from my body.
▪ They leach out of rock varnish more rapidly than the less-soluble elements and their concentration thus decreases with time.
▪ This will leach out the poisons of the raw pork sausage!
▪ These needed several coats of polyurethane varnish to prevent the dye leaching out.
▪ When rain water hits pyrite ore, it forms sulfuric acid, which leaches out copper and other metals.
▪ This applies to mineral water as well - substances in the plastic bottle can leach out into the water.
▪ In spite of these coverings, the drug may leach out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nitrates from fertilizers leached into the rivers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, with heavier stocking, even grass leaches more nitrate.
▪ Constantly running water through gravel means that any hardness will be leached into the water.
▪ Drainage had already leached away much of the water resources of the Great Plains grain belt.
▪ Everything from erosion to leaching to iron rainstorms is possible, perhaps much more.
▪ For some minutes Harry sat extremely still to leach the sting.
▪ Heap leaching uses chemical solutions to dissolve gold from heaps of crushed ore.
▪ I would sweat so hard that my shirt collar turned white from the salt leached out from my body.
▪ Plastics not intended for food use vary: some may leach dye into the water, and some can be toxic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
leach

Leech \Leech\, n. [OE. leche, l[ae]che, physician, AS. l[=ae]ce; akin to Fries. l[=e]tza, OHG. l[=a]hh[=i], Icel. l[ae]knari, Sw. l["a]kare, Dan. l[ae]ge, Goth. l[=e]keis, AS. l[=a]cnian to heal, Sw. l["a]ka, Dan. l[ae]ge, Icel. l[ae]kna, Goth. l[=e]kin[=o]n.]

  1. A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also leach.] [Archaic]
    --Spenser.

    Leech, heal thyself.
    --Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

    Note: In the mouth of bloodsucking leeches are three convergent, serrated jaws, moved by strong muscles. By the motion of these jaws a stellate incision is made in the skin, through which the leech sucks blood till it is gorged, and then drops off. The stomach has large pouches on each side to hold the blood. The common large bloodsucking leech of America ( Macrobdella decora) is dark olive above, and red below, with black spots. Many kinds of leeches are parasitic on fishes; others feed upon worms and mollusks, and have no jaws for drawing blood. See Bdelloidea. Hirudinea, and Clepsine.

  3. (Surg.) A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

    Horse leech, a less powerful European leech ( H[ae]mopis vorax), commonly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

leach

Leech \Leech\, n. [Cf. LG. leik, Icel. l[=i]k, Sw. lik boltrope, st[*a]ende liken the leeches.] (Naut.) The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach.]

Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by.
--Totten.

Leech rope, that part of the boltrope to which the side of a sail is sewed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
leach

Old English leccan "to moisten, water, wet, irrigate," (see leak (v.)). The word disappears, then re-emerges late 18c. in a technological sense in reference to percolating liquids. Related: Leached; leaching.

Wiktionary
leach

n. 1 A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. 2 A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. 3 (context nautical English) (alternative spelling of leech English) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolate fluid. 2 (context intransitive English) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

WordNet
leach
  1. n. the process of leaching [syn: leaching]

  2. v. cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate

  3. permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" [syn: percolate]

  4. remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: strip]

Gazetteer
Leach, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 220
Housing Units (2000): 94
Land area (2000): 6.229575 sq. miles (16.134524 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.229575 sq. miles (16.134524 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41900
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.197845 N, 94.913359 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74364
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Leach, OK
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Wikipedia
Leach

Leach may refer to:

  • Leach (surname)
  • Leach, Oklahoma in the United States
  • Leach, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Leach Highway, Western Australia
  • Leach orchid
  • Leach phenotype, a mutation in the gene encoding Glycophorin C
  • Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), a routing protocol in wireless sensor networks
  • "Leach", a song by Cryptopsy off their album The Unspoken King
  • River Leach, England
  • Leach Range, a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada
Leach (steam automobile company)

Leach or Leach Steamer was an American automobile company started in 1899.

Leach (automobile)

Leach-Biltwell Motor Company designed, engineered, manufactured, and distributed luxury automobiles in the early 1920s. They used a Continental 303.1 cubic inch inline six-cylinder engine. Some of the advanced features of the Power-Plus Six included a tilt and telescoping steering column, removable steering wheel (to be used as an anti-theft feature) and a directional signal/stop light box on the rear fender (with the control switch on the dashboard).

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Power-Plus Six was the pillarless "California top" that was a popular accessory for open touring cars in the 1920s. This top effectively made the car a " hardtop," thirty years before the hardtop-convertible became a popular body style in the United States. Body styles included both two and four door models.

Leach cars were high-priced for the day, and the company found itself in financial hot water by 1923. It closed its shutters in early 1924 after a grand total of about 250 cars (chassis with and without factory bodies) were produced.

Leach (surname)

Leach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Al Leach (born 1935), Canadian transportation executive and politician
  • Archie Leach (1904–1986), real name of English-American actor Cary Grant
  • Ben Leach (born 1969), player in English pop group The Farm
  • Bernard Leach (1887–1979), British studio potter and art teacher
  • Bobby Leach (1858–1926), English circus performer, went over Niagara Falls in a barrel
  • Britt Leach (born 1938), American character actor
  • Dewitt C. Leach (1822–1909), U.S. Representative from Michigan
  • David Leach (disambiguation)
  • Edmund Leach (1910–1989), British anthropologist
  • Sir Edward Pemberton Leach (1847–1913), Irish general in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Edward Leach (cricketer) (1896–1973), English cricketer
  • Edward G. Leach, American politician
  • Francis Leach (born 1968), Australian radio announcer
  • Garry Leach (born 1954), British comics artist and publisher
  • George Leach, Canadian musician and actor
  • George E. Leach (1876–1955), United States Army general and politician
  • Henry Leach (British Army officer) (1870–1936), British Army general
  • Sir Henry Leach (1923–2011), Royal Navy admiral
  • Howard H. Leach, American diplomat
  • Jim Leach (born 1942), American politician from Iowa
  • James Madison Leach (1815–1891), American politician from North Carolina
  • James Leach (soldier) (1892–1957), British soldier and Victoria Cross holder
  • Jason Leach (born 1982), American football player
  • Jesse Leach (born 1978), American musician
  • John Leach (disambiguation)
  • Karoline Leach (born 1967), British playwright and author
  • Lillian Leach (1936–2013), American singer
  • Mandy Leach (born 1979), Zimbabwean freestyle swimmer
  • Martin Leach (executive), British businessman and engineer
  • Martin Leach (Australian murderer) (born 1959), Australian convicted murderer and rapist
  • Mick Leach (1947–1992), English soccer player
  • Mike Leach (tennis) (born 1960), American tennis player
  • Mike Leach (coach) (born 1961), American football coach
  • Mike Leach (long snapper) (born 1976), American football player
  • Neil Leach, British architect and theorist
  • Nicole Leach (born 1979), American actress and singer
  • Penelope Leach (born 1937), British child psychologist and parenting author
  • Reggie Leach (born 1950), Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Rick Leach (born 1964), American tennis player and coach
  • Rick Leach (baseball) (born 1957), American baseball and football player
  • Robert M. Leach (1879-1952), United States Representative from Massachusetts
  • Robert E. Leach (1911–1993), Republican judge in the U.S. State of Ohio
  • Robin Leach (born 1941), English entertainer
  • Rosemary Leach (born 1935), English stage, television and film actress
  • Sheryl Leach (born 1952), American children's TV show creator and author, known for the series Barney & Friends
  • Terry Leach (born 1954), former Major League Baseball player
  • Tommy Leach (1877–1969), Major League Baseball player
  • Vonta Leach (born 1981), American football fullback for the Houston Texans
  • William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist

Usage examples of "leach".

He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .

The color faded from his eyes, leached away to white and then filled with amaranthine lacking whites, pupils and iris.

In fact making cocaine freebase was so simple that any number of chemicals could be used, the only key element being that you mix your coke with an alkali strong enough to leach off the hydrochloride.

With the compassionate delicacy of a master surgeon, Kharadmon applied the keen edge of his humor to refire the dulled lines leached by pain.

Even their natural color seemed leached, battered to a dulled shade of slate.

She got to her hands and knees, but the color leached out of the world, its deep swallowing green turning gray.

She had a gaunt, wrinkled face and hair leached white by the passage of centuries.

It was not true concrete, however, and seeping rainwater had leached pockets from the material.

It was far outweighed by the physical effects of her recent illness, and what little colour she had leached from her face.

The large volume of water carries minerals from the topsoil down into the subsoil, but in desert environments, soil moisture evaporates more rapidly than it can be leached downward.

The insidious distortions of drake-dreams and the rip currents of primal chaos left a toll of leaching damage.

Weariness compounded the incessant chill, hazing the mind toward dozing sleep and leaching away better judgment.

Not with teeth or claws, but by the much slower poison of leaching your innate free claim to existence.

We clambered to the service road and dropped down into the woods to examine the leaching field that, from the beginning, had formed an unsightly bump in the lawn just beyond the deck.

She had never felt this way before, as if she were wrapped in a weightless cocoon that pulled at her anxieties, leaching them away.