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Definition: Leach |
LeachNoun1. The process of leaching. Verb1. Cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate. 2. Permeate; penetrate gradually; of liquids. 3. Remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Sports & Leisure | The after edge of a sail; the part of a sail which is to leeward. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Leach is a town located in Delaware County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 220.Geography
Leach is located at 36°11'52" North, 94°54'48" West (36.197845, -94.913359)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 16.1 km² (6.2 mi²). 16.1 km² (6.2 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 220 people, 81 households, and 66 families residing in the town. The population density is 13.6/km² (35.3/mi²). There are 94 housing units at an average density of 5.8/km² (15.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 48.64% White, 0.00% African American, 40.45% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 10.91% from two or more races. 1.36% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 81 households out of which 38.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.9% are married couples living together, 9.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 17.3% are non-families. 16.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.72 and the average family size is 2.99. In the town the population is spread out with 28.6% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 26.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 103.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 109.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $30,972, and the median income for a family is $31,964. Males have a median income of $23,646 versus $24,375 for females. The per capita income for the town is $11,119. 18.3% of the population and 17.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.9% are under the age of 18 and 30.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leach, Oklahoma."
Synonyms: LeachSynonyms: leaching (n), percolate (v), strip (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Leach |
| English words defined with "leach": Cat-salt ♦ Leached, Letch, Lixiviate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leach": COAGULATION OPERATOR, column leaching, combination process, Common Internet File System ♦ Devereaux agitator ♦ flocculator operator ♦ Glass Ionomer Cements ♦ heap leaching, heap rinsing ♦ leach dump, Leach, Leachcraft, LEACHER, locked test, Longmaid-Henderson process, low-nitrate barren ♦ rate determining step ♦ slime leaching, SLIME-PLANT OPERATOR II. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "leach": Lias. (references) |
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 | A bulldozer begins to unearth the dam for preliminary site testing purposes. The testing was conducted to determine if contaminants that could leach in to the river were present and to assess the likelihood of uncovering any historical artifacts. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Plate 265. The Green Crab. Carcinus maenas, Leach. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tommy Leach. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Thomas W. Leach. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Bobby" Leach and his barrel. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep. |
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| "Leach" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.04% of the time. "Leach" is used about 171 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 (proper) | 83.04% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.28% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.68% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 171 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "leach" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Leach | Last name | 17,000 | 686 |
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1. Leach, OK |
Expressions using "leach": chop and leach ♦ chop and leach process ♦ Leach brine ♦ leach hole ♦ Leach tub. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gramm leach bliley act | 136 | harold leach | 10 |
gramm leach bliley | 108 | lake leach | 10 |
leach | 106 | david hydroplane leach | 9 |
leach field | 64 | penelope leach | 9 |
george leach | 38 | leach nicole | 9 |
leach ftp | 29 | field leach septic | 8 |
camper leach sales | 26 | garner leach | 8 |
gramm leach | 24 | leach relay | 7 |
graham leach | 23 | amp leach | 7 |
robin leach | 21 | home john leach | 7 |
graham leach bliley act | 21 | howard leach | 6 |
sterne agee leach | 18 | david leach | 6 |
bernard leach | 15 | leach reggie | 6 |
buddy leach | 15 | leach line septic | 6 |
leach international | 15 | rick leach | 6 |
camper leach | 15 | landon leach | 6 |
bliley graham leach | 14 | mike leach | 6 |
bed leach | 10 | design field leach | 6 |
jim leach | 10 | agee leach stern | 5 |
leach relays | 10 | garner gold leach | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "leach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Shpëlaj Uji Kripërat, Kulloj (clarify, decant, defecate, drain, exude, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, percolate, seep, strain, stream), Enë Kullimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, defecate, determine, do away with, filter, filtrate, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud, wipe out), رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Промивам, Прецеждам, Филтрирам, азтварям Се, азтопявам Се. (various references) | |
Chinese | 过滤 (Filtered, Filtering, Filtrated, Filtrating, Percolate, Percolated, Percolating, SIFT, Sifted, sifting). (various references) | |
Czech | Vyluhovat. (various references) | |
Danish | jordfaldshul (collapse sinkhole, dolina, doline, failure, leach hole, rock failure, shakehole, sink, sinkhole, solution sinkhole, sotch), hakke-og oploesningsproces (chop and leach, chop and leach process, chopping-leaching process), doline (dolina, doline, leach hole, shakehole, sink, sinkhole, sotch). (various references) | |
Dutch | achterlijk (retarded). (various references) | |
Farsi | صافی کردن , صافی (Gloss, Purity, Scumble, Serene, Serenity, Strainer), ازصافی گذراندن , شستن (Launder, Scour, Wash). (various references) | |
Finnish | doliini (collapse sinkhole, dolina, doline, leach hole, shakehole, sink, sinkhole, solution sinkhole, sotch). (various references) | |
French | Lixivier, Filtrer, Extraire Par Lessivage, Eau Alcaline, chute (leech). (various references) | |
German | laugen (lye), Lauge (lye, soapy water), Filtern (drain, filter, filtrate, percolate, to drain, to filtrate), Durchfiltern, Achterliek (leech). (various references) | |
Greek | Στραγγίζω, "ιηθώ, Αλυσίβα, λύνω, λύνομαι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ּס ן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cserzőkád, Átszûr, Átmosás, anyag (clinker, filler, material, matter, stuff, substance, substrata, substrate, substratum, theme), átmosott anyag, átmosás (leaching), átáztatott, átáztatás (leaching). (various references) | |
Italian | Percolare, balumina (leech). (various references) | |
Manx | leetchey, laistey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eachlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | filtrar (depurate, filtrate, percolate, purify), coar (flow, percolate, pour in, strain). (various references) | |
Romanian | Filtra (defecate, filter, percolate), Extrage (abstract, draw, extract, mine, produce, pull, win). (various references) | |
Russian | Щелок, 'ыщелачиватель, ассол, апа. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lužnica, raskvasiti (soften), namočiti (dunk, soak), močenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | Filtrar (filter, filtrate, leak, percolate, strain). (various references) | |
Swedish | Lutning (declivity, dip, downgrade, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, pitch, rake, slant, stoop, tilt), Urlaka (soak), Filtrera (filter, filtrate, percolate). (various references) | |
Thai | การกรอง, กรอง (sieve, sift). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yıkayarak Arıtmak, Süzmek (bolt, clarify, contemplate, drain, eye, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, measure, percolate, settle, strain). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | 'изолювати, 'илуговувач, 'илуговувати, опа. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "leach": leachabilities, leachability, leachable, leachate, leachates, leached, leacher, leachers, leaches, leachier, leachiest, leaching, leachy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "leach": bleach, overbleach, pleach. (additional references) | |
Words containing "leach": bleachable, bleached, bleacher, bleacherite, bleacherites, bleachers, bleaches, bleaching, overbleached, overbleaches, overbleaching, pleached, pleaches, pleaching, unbleached. (additional references) | |
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"Leach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gleich, Laach, Lach, lachy, laich, lakh, lauch, Lavatch, leac, leace, leacj, leack, leah, learch, leasch, leatch, leath, Lebak, leca, Lecat, lechy, leechy, legache, Leicht, leitch, Lencho, lepak, Lepcha, Lerach, lerch, lesche, Lescht, leuk, levak, Lewchuk, liech, Llach, Llyarch, locahn, loeak, Loesch, lojack, lrac, luah, seach, weach. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leach" (pronounced lē"kh) |
| 3 | l ē" kh | bleach, Leech. |
| 2 | -ē" kh | beach, beech, breach, breech, each, impeach, peach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chela. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l" | |
-1 letter: ache, alec, each, hale, heal, lace, lech. | |
-2 letters: ace, ale, cel, hae, lac, lea. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, al, eh, el, ha, he, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l" | |
+1 letter: bleach, chaleh, chalet, chapel, chelae, chelas, hackle, heliac, laches, leachy, pleach, thecal. | |
+2 letters: acaleph, alchemy, bechalk, caleche, caliche, chaetal, chalehs, chalets, chalice, chalked, challie, chalone, chancel, channel, chapels, chaplet, charley, charlie, charnel, chattel, cheaply, chelate, cholate, cholera, chorale, choreal, clashed, clasher, clashes, cochlea, epochal, ethical, hackled, hackler, hackles, hatchel, helical, hellcat, kolache, larches, latched, latches, latchet, leached, leacher, leaches, loaches, planche, satchel, shackle, shellac, trachle. | |
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