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seep
English
Etymology
Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sip?n?, derivative of *s?pan? (compare Middle Dutch s?pen (“to drip”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”)), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”) (compare Latin s?bum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek ???? (eíb?, “to drop, drip”). See soap.
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?p, IPA(key): /si?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Verb
seep (third-person singular simple present seeps, present participle seeping, simple past and past participle seeped)
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To diminish or wane away slowly.
Synonyms
- leak
Noun
seep (plural seeps)
- A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.
- Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.
- The seeping away of a liquid, etc.
- A seafloor vent.
Translations
Translations
See also
- sip
- siphon
Anagrams
- Sepe, eeps, pees
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zeep.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??p/
Noun
seep (plural sepe)
- soap
Descendants
- ? Xhosa: isepha
- ? Zulu: insipho
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German sêpe.
Noun
seep (genitive seebi, partitive seepi)
- soap
Declension
Massachusett
Pronunciation
- (Revived) IPA(key): /si?p/
Noun
seep
- river
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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
Related terms
Translations
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
Plautdietsch
Adjective
bleed
- shy, coy
- modest
- withdrawn
- timid, reticent, reluctant
Derived terms
- Bleedheit
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