Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, plural-normally, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, media, television
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noun
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: sound recording
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noun
The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: roleplaying games
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: animal or body part
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verb
To menstruate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To let or draw blood from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To take large amounts of money from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To steadily lose (something vital).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To bleed on; to make bloody.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: copulative, figuratively, intransitive
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verb
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: feed
verb
To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: advertising, business, marketing, media, publishing
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verb
To lose money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: business, finance
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verb
lose blood from one's body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: shed blood, hemorrhage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exhaust, discharge, expel, eject, release
Narrower terms: menstruate, flow
verb
draw blood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: treat, care for
verb
drain of liquid or steam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: empty
verb
be diffused
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: run
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out
Narrower terms: crock
verb
get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring
History
From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōdijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”). Cognates Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
Across languages
178 source translations are retained for this English entry.
