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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Water that collects contaminants as it trickles through wastes, pesticides or fertilizers. Leaching may occur in farming areas, feedlots, and landfills, and may result in hazardous substances entering surface water, ground water, or soil. (references) |
| Polluted water from accumulated waste at a landfill site, from compost etc. :, consists mainly of water which has percolated through the accumulated waste or which has been in contact with it resulting in leaching; cf. sewage, manure effluent, percolation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A solution obtained by leaching; e.g., water that has percolated through soil containing soluble substances and that contains certain amounts ofthese substances in solution. Syn:lixivium. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LEACHATE |
| Specialty definitions using "LEACHATE": Ground-Water Discharge ♦ Leachate Collection System. (references) |
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| "LEACHATE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "LEACHATE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "LEACHATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sivevand fra losseplads (seepage), perkolat (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, soakage, vandose water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zakwater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, soakage, vandose water), vuilnis-percolatiewater (seepage), percolatiewater uit afvalstoffen (seepage), percolatiewater (seepage), percolaat (seepage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valumavesi (seepage), suotovesi (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage, soakage, vandose water), kaatopaikalta suotautunut vesi (seepage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lixiviat, lessivat, eaux d'infiltration de la décharge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sickerwasser (seepage water), Müllsickerwasser (seepage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαρροή (leak, leakage, leakiness, ooze, seepage), διαφυγή (escape, leakage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colatoio (colander), acqua d'infiltrazione della discarica (seepage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eachatelay lixiviado (seepage), água de lixiviação (seepage). (various references) aguas de lixiviación (seepage), aguas de infiltración de la descarga (seepage). (various references) lakvatten (seepage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "LEACHATE": leachates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-l-t" | |
-1 letter: chaetae, chaetal, chelate. | |
-2 letters: acetal, althea, chaeta, chalet, chelae, thecae, thecal. | |
-3 letters: aceta, alate, cheat, chela, cleat, eclat, elate, elect, latch, lathe, leach, leech, letch, lethe, tache, teach, telae, theca. | |
-4 letters: ache, acta, alae, alec, alee, cate, celt, cete, chat, each, eath, eche, etch, haet, hale, halt, hate, heal, heat, heel, lace, late, lath. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-l-t" | |
+1 letter: leachates, teachable. | |
+2 letters: antechapel, chalybeate, chatelaine, chelatable, detachable, hemiacetal. | |
+3 letters: aesthetical, antechapels, chalybeates, chatelaines, escheatable, hemiacetals, leatherback, metaethical, unteachable. | |
+4 letters: acetaldehyde, atheoretical, catechetical, endotracheal, leatherbacks, merchantable, metathetical, metencephala, methacrylate, telencephala. | |
+5 letters: acetaldehydes, aesthetically, autocephalies, catecholamine, characterless, cyanoethylate, kaffeeklatsch, methacrylates, nondetachable, parenthetical, teachableness, theatricalize. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 41 43 48 41 54 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- -.-. .... .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E A C H A T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0041 0043 0048 0041 0054 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4639353742355439 |
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