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bleed
English
Etymology
From Middle English bleden, from Old English bl?dan (“to bleed”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?þijan? (“to bleed”), from *bl?þ? (“blood”). Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bli?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
Verb
bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)
- (intransitive, of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
- And so Sir Trystrames bledde bothe the over-shete and the neyther-shete, and the pylowes and the hede-shete
- (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising (page 35)
- Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
- 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, ?Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing (page 361)
- Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
- 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising (page 35)
Derived terms
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Noun
bleed (plural bleeds)
- An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
- (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- bleed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- bleed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Lebed, bedel, debel
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Adjective
bleed
- shy, coy
- modest
- withdrawn
- timid, reticent, reluctant
Derived terms
- Bleedheit
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bleep
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)
- A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
- (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
- What the bleep are you doing?
- (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
- 2005, "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic? (on newsgroup alt.gothic)
- See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
- 2005, "oldgoth", Theaving[sic] Goths (on newsgroup uk.people.gothic)
- A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.
- 2005, "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic? (on newsgroup alt.gothic)
Translations
Verb
bleep (third-person singular simple present bleeps, present participle bleeping, simple past and past participle bleeped)
- (intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.
- The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
- (transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
- Synonym: blip
Derived terms
- bleeper
- bleep out
- bleepy
Translations
Anagrams
- plebe
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