(n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
(n.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
(n.) Bilge water.
(v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
(v. i.) To bulge.
(v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
(v. t.) To cause to bulge.
Example Sentences:
(1) I get lots of negative emails but the people I meet are always friendly.” The existence of Snopes and similar sites like FactCheck.Org , TruthOrFiction.com and PolitiFact.com raises several questions: who produces the bilge?
(2) When Clegg told his party they were now "the radical middle, governing from the middle for the middle", in the same breath as claiming the heritage of Mill, Lloyd George, Keynes and Beveridge, it was plain bilge.
(3) Clegg said in an Independent interview on Friday that he had joked to Cameron that he was talking "complete bilge" when he defended the first-past-the-post system at prime minister's questions on Wednesday.
(4) "Bilge," he grumbled when another student wanted to know about his links with a lobbying firm that later worked for Colonel Gaddafi.
(5) In the area of non-toxic waste, Genesearch has developed products for on-site treatment of, for example, grease-trap wastes and waste oil in ship bilges; and a large scale process for conversion of municipal grease wastes into protein-rich biomass.
(6) As the election season moves into high gear, co-founder David Mikkelson says “the bilge is rising faster than you can pump”.
(7) The Catholic father in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall is just the most implacable enemy of nice-as-pie communists showing everyone a good time; the village imam in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep is an ingratiating, smirking creep; and the local rev in The Homesman (as played by John Lithgow) is definitely a weasel, rather too obviously grateful not to have to transport three traumatised frontierwomen back east.
(8) Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep was a punishing three-and-a-quarter hour workout from the Turkish master.
(9) The frontrunner is still Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, a three-and-a-half Turkish drama about an actor grappling with marital breakdown in the mountains.
(10) It tasted as you might imagine licking the slime off a fish that has been left to fester in a warm room for three days might taste; it had the tang of bilge and entrail.
(11) If the bilge pump stops, you are done,” said Cauchi.
(12) "Of course we are fighting it [and] we will win," said Sanci's daughter Bilge Sanci, executive editor at his publishing house Sel Yayincilik.
(13) Imagine the pejorative bilge that they'd stir up and slap on, if it'd been a yarn not about tycoons and warlords but about people outside of the mainstream; an out-of-favour celeb, an immigrant or a gypsy.
(14) There has been one movie which, though not exactly a disappointment, has caused critics to revise their expectations – and that is Winter Sleep , by the Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
(15) "I kept my silence for weeks and weeks and weeks of ludicrous bilge being put out there [by the no to AV campaign] to dupe and to scare the British people."
(16) "My kingdom may be small but at least I'm the king," boasts the despised landlord at the heart of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama Winter Sleep.
(17) And in any case, Clegg assured everyone, claims that the Queen had got into a bust-up with him over Brexit back in 2011 were “A-grade, 24-carat bilge”.
(18) AP Winter Sleep Nuri Bilge Ceylan with actress Hatice Aslan and screenwriter Ebru Ceylan at Cannes 2008.
(19) The bilge is contaminating, not destroying, public discourse.
(20) The bilge keeps coming faster than you can pump.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The patron saint of fact-checking ... David Mikkelson, co-founder of Snopes.com at his desk in Calabasas, California.
Leak
Definition:
(v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
(v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
(a.) Leaky.
(n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
(n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(2) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
(5) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
(6) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(7) The toxicity at this dose included pericarditis and dyspnoea ascribed to a 'capillary-leak' syndrome.
(8) Horseradish peroxidase was not observed to leak from the lumen of new vessels.
(9) The cation leak identified in this manner is not prelytic, and it is fully reversible.
(10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(11) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
(12) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(13) 2) MTC was useful for the resection of the lung because of no air leak and bleeding coming from the resected section.
(14) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(15) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(16) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
(17) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(18) Cardiac disorders being usually concomitant with this syndrome (interventricular leak, pulmonary arterial wedge stenosis etc.)
(19) Thus, both pump-mediated and leak Na+ effluxes were voltage independent.
(20) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.