name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
leach
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.
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Pronunciation
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/liːt͡ʃ/
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UK, US: lēch
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UK, US: /liːt͡ʃ/
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homophone: leech
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rhymes with -iːtʃ
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CMU ARPABET: L IY1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A river in Gloucestershire, with a short stretch in Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames at Lechlade; in full, the River Leach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
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noun
Meaning 6
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
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noun
Meaning 7
Alternative spelling of leech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 8
A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
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verb
Meaning 9
To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
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verb
Meaning 10
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.
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verb
Meaning 11
To bleed; to seep.
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Usage: figuratively, intransitive
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noun
Meaning 12
the process of leaching
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: leaching
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Broader terms: natural process, natural action, action, activity
verb
Meaning 13
remove substances from by a percolating liquid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- leach the soil
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strip
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Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
verb
Meaning 14
permeate or penetrate gradually
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the fertilizer leached into the ground
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Synonyms: percolate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trickle, dribble, filter
verb
Meaning 15
cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
History
Etymology
Two main origins: * Occupational surname for a physician, from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”). * Topographic surname for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from Old English læcc (“boggy stream”) (related to Proto-Germanic *lekaną), or from several English placenames related to this (compare Leake).
From Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muddy stream”), from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (“a leak, drain, flow”) (compare Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”). Cognate with Old English leċċan (“to water, moisten”), Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond”). More at leak, lake.
From Middle English *lechen, *lecchen, from Old English leċċan, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: луга (luga) — wood ashes
- Polish: popiół drzewny — wood ashes
- Hungarian: lúgzókád — tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- Hungarian: lúgozókád — tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- Polish: kadź do ługowania — tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- Bulgarian: излугвам (izlugvam) — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Czech: vyplavovat — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Czech: vyluhovat — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Finnish: huuhtoa — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Finnish: liuottaa — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- German: auswaschen — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- German: auslaugen — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Hungarian: kilúgoz — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Hungarian: kimos — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Italian: drenare — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Italian: purgare — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Italian: filtrare — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Italian: percolare — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Māori: whakapākeka — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Polish: wypłukiwać — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Polish: wypłukać — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Polish: ługować — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Polish: wyługować — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Portuguese: lixiviar — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Russian: вымывать (vymyvatʹ) — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Slovene: izlužiti — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Spanish: lixiviar — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Swedish: laka ur — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Swedish: vattna ur — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Swedish: dra ur — to purge a soluble matter out of something
- Finnish: irrota — to part with soluble constituents by percolation
- Finnish: huuhtoutua — to part with soluble constituents by percolation
- Finnish: liueta — to part with soluble constituents by percolation
- Polish: ługować — to part with soluble constituents by percolation
- Polish: wyługować — to part with soluble constituents by percolation
Real reading context