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Definition: Seepage |
SeepageNoun1. The process of seeping. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seepage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | Percolation of water through the soil from unlined canals, ditches, laterals, watercourses, or water storage facilities. (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) | |
Food & Agriculture | Penetration of liquid into porous or cracked material; e. g. the penetration of water into soil or rock; cf. percolation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Slow movement(ofwater)through layer of porous material; cf. infiltration, leachate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | (1) The slow movement of water through small cracks, pores, Interstices, etc., of a material into or out of a body of surface or subsurface water. (2) The loss of water by infiltration into the soil from a canal, ditches, laterals, watercourse, reservoir, storage facilities, or other body of water, or from a field. (references) |
| The interstitial movement of water that may take place through a dam, its foundation, or abutments. (references) | |
Public Administration | Slow flow of water through a dike or other structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SeepageSynonyms: ooze (n), oozing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seepage |
| English words defined with "seepage": bilge well ♦ sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling, Sipage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "seepage": abandoned well, Abutment Seepage, ACID-TANK LINER ♦ base flow, boring-machine-operator helper ♦ cienega, CONCRETE-VAULT MAKER, Conveyance Loss, COTTAGE-CHEESE MAKER ♦ Deep Seepage, Dental Leakage, Drains ♦ Effluent Seepage, elkington system ♦ filter zone ♦ Ground Water Runoff, groundwater discharge, groundwater flow, groundwater seepage, Grout Curtain ♦ HORIZONTAL-EARTH-BORING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ incidental recharging, Influent Seepage, INSPECTOR, PLUMBING ♦ line of seepage, Long Term Storage Dams ♦ percolation test, phreatic line, phreatic surface, precipitation barrier ♦ rust proofer ♦ seepage line, Seepage Pit, sink-hole drainage, subsurface flow, subsurface run-off, surface-cum-seepage drains ♦ telluric moisture, telluric water, Toe Drain, transported gossan ♦ UNDERCOATER, underground run-off. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Seepage (1981) | |
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 | Between Baton Rouge & New Orleans, on the Miss. River--Stopping seepage thru levee, placing dirt on river side.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cement capping has been laid around filled well to stop seepage from surface water. John Hardesty well project, Charles County, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Well water can become fecally contaminated if animal waste seepage contaminates the ground water. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Seepage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.57% of the time. "Seepage" is used about 35 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) | 88.57% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.43% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "seepage": groundwater seepage ♦ line of seepage ♦ seepage area. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "seepage": surface-cum-seepage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
seepage | 16 |
seepage pit | 8 |
seepage water | 5 |
basement seepage | 4 |
basement seepage water | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seepage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kullim (clearing, defecation, drainage, dribble, exudation, filtration, infiltration), depërtim (breakthrough, infiltrate, infiltration, insight, penetration, permeation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نز (ooze, seep, spew, sweat, weep), تسيل, تسرب (get home, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, leak, leakage, ooze, seep), خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, drain, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, spoilage, wastage), رشح نفح, دلف (draggle, dripping, leak, leakage, spring a leak, toddle, trickle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стичане (confluence, conflux), филтрация, просмукваща се влага, просмукване (infiltration, permeation), изтичане (discharge, effluence, efflux, effusion, escape, expiration, expiry, flow, fluxion, issuance, issue, leak, leakage, outflow, outgo, outlet, termination), извор (font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, head, headspring, lymph, origin, rise, source, spring, well, wellhead, wellspring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 滲漏 (leakage), 渗流 (OOZE, Oozed, oozing, transfusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prosakování. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sivevand fra losseplads (leachate), udsivning af saft, udsivning af råolie (oil seepage, seeps), udsivning (bleed through, bleeding), perkulation (infiltration, percolation), perkolation (percolation, seeping), perkolat (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, soakage, vandose water), nedsivning (percolation, seeping), infiltrering (infiltration, percolation), infiltration (air infiltration, infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, percolation, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), gennemvaedning (incubation), gennemsivning, ensilagesaft (silage effluent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | silosap (silage effluent), sijpelwater (percolation, seep water, seepage water), percolatie (percolation, seeping), doorzijging (percolation, seeping), infiltratie (infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, percolation, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), instroming (infiltration, inflow, influx, percolation), inzijging (percolation, seeping), kwel (fountain, source, spring), kwelwater (leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, seepage water, soakage, vandose water), lekwater (percolation, seep water, seepage water), doorvochtiging, percolaat (leachate), zakwater (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, soakage, vandose water), percolatiewater (leachate), percolatiewater uit afvalstoffen (leachate), perssap (silage effluent), vuilnis-percolatiewater (leachate), wegsijpeling van het sap, oliesijpeling (oil seepage, seeps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقداررسوخ شده , نفوذ (Authority, Dominance, Force, Hank, Importance, Infiltration, Influence, Influx, Osmosis, Prestige, Prevalence), چکه (Drip, Drop, Leak, Leakage, Seep, Sprinkle, Trickle), رسوخ (Ooze, Seep, Sink, Transfusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suotovesi (leachate, leakage water, percolating water, percolation water, seep water, soakage, vandose water), suoto (percolation, seeping), suotautuminen (segregation), suodattuminen (percolation, seeping), suodanta, valumavesi (leachate), tihkuminen (bleeding, oil seepage, seeps), puristeneste (silage effluent), kaatopaikalta suotautunut vesi (leachate), imeytyminen (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, absorption, infiltration, percolation, sorption, wicking), öljyn tihkuminen (oil seepage, seeps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suintement (oil seepage, seep, seeps), fuite (seep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Leck (leak, leakage, leaky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαρροή (bleeding, leachate, leak, leakage, leakiness, ooze, run, runout, run-out, spillage, spilling, yielding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לחלחל (ooze, percolate, permeate, seep), חלחול (infiltration, penetration, percolation, permeability, trembling), "ליפ" (dripping, leak, leakage, oozing, trickling), בצבוץ (bursting, shooting buds, sprouting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szivárgás (bleed, leak, leakage, ooze, trickle), nedvesség (dampness, humidity, moist, moistness, moisture, wet, wetness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rembesan (oozing liquid), air rembesan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | infiltrazione (cantilever, infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, percolation, seeping, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 누수. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cheet fo (come under, come within). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepagesay infiltração (bleed through, bleeding, infiltrate, infiltration, infinite, osmotic, percolation, percolator, permissible, pervasion). (various references) просачивание (infiltration, percolation), инфильтрация (infiltration). (various references) curenje (drip, leak, leakage, ooze, trickle). (various references) filtración (filtering, filtration, leak, leakage, percolation, seep water, seepage water). (various references) läckage (leak, leakage). (various references) sızıntı (creep, creepage, efflux, emanation, escape, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow, runaway). (various references) інфільтрація (infiltration), вихід нафти, просочування (dripping, imbibition, leakage, ooze, percolation, saturation). (various references) sự thấm qua (percolation, permeation), sự rỉ ra (leakage, transudation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seepage": seepages. (additional references) | |
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"Seepage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seapage, separe, sepate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seepage" (pronounced sē"pij) |
| 3 | -p i j | slippage, stoppage, stumpage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-p-s" | |
-1 letter: peages. | |
-2 letters: epees, gapes, geese, pages, peage, peags, pease. | |
-3 letters: agee, ages, apes, apse, ease, epee, gaes, gape, gaps, gasp, gees, page, pase, peag, peas, pees, pegs, sage, seep, spae. | |
-4 letters: age, ape, asp, gae, gap, gas, gee, pas, pea, pee, peg, pes, sae, sag, sap, sea, see, seg, spa. | |
-5 letters: ae, ag, as, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-p-s" | |
+1 letter: gapeseed, peerages, seepages. | |
+2 letters: creepages, gapeseeds. | |
+3 letters: empennages, expressage, pangeneses, repechages. | |
+4 letters: expressages, gamekeepers, gatekeepers, goalkeepers, parageneses, percentages, safekeeping. | |
+5 letters: cheeseparing, paedogeneses, paedogenesis, palingeneses, pathogeneses, peregrinates, predeceasing, predesignate, safekeepings, telegraphers, telegraphese, telegraphies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 65 70 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . . .--. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100101 01110000 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e e p a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0065 0070 0061 0067 0065 |
| 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)53717182677371 |
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