leach

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
2. A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of leech.
4. A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

Verb

1. (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
2. (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.

Sinonieme

filter

percolate

wash

🧽

strip

leaching

lixiviate

flush

filtrate

strain

husk

infiltrate

lixiviation

lye

ooze

osmose

pare

peel

peel off

penetrate

percolation

permeate

pod

pour

seep

shave

shell

🐚

shuck

skim

skin

sluice

steep

flush down

wash down

wring

rush down

skim off

leachable

leachine

gush down

sluice down

bloodsucker

washine out

decorticate

drain

drip

exfoliate

extract

extraction

filtration

hull

Vertalings

lessiver

laugen

lixiviar

auslaugen

loog

auswaschen

filtre

φιλτράρομαι

πλύνομαι

lixiviar

διηθώ

στραγγίζω

διηθούμαι

αλυσίβα

πλύνω

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/liːt͡ʃ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: leche

Geërf van Old English: *lǣċ

Verwante met Old English: leċċan

Verwante met Old English: lacu

Geërf van Middle English: *lechen

Geërf van Old English: leċċan

In summary

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.