different between trickle vs bleed

English

Etymology

Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

trickle (plural trickles)

1. A very thin river.

   The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.

   The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

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Verb

trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

   The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

   Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.

Derived terms

• trickle truth

Translations

Anagrams

• tickler

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)

1. (intransitive, of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

2. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
3. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
4. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

5. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

6. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
7. (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.

8. (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

9. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

10. To lose sap, gum, or juice.

11. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
12. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

13. (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.

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Noun

bleed (plural bleeds)

1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
2. (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.

3. (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).
4. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
5. 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

1. shy, coy
2. modest
3. withdrawn
4. timid, reticent, reluctant

Derived terms

• Bleedheit