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Leach


Definition:

  • (n.) See 3d Leech.
  • (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  • (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  • (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
  • (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
  • (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
  • (n.) See Leech, a physician.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 2.53pm GMT 2.48pm GMT 'Tricky job, well done' - IoD Graeme Leach , chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said: This was a tricky job, well done by George Osborne.
  • (2) In this study two soft coals obtained from mines in which workers had high and low incidences of CWP were leached with aqueous base and acid to remove their acidic and basic components.
  • (3) Leaching the lyophilized mitochondrial fraction with either hexane or acetone increased substantially the yields of the metabolites.
  • (4) Worse, the CFL contains mercury, which according to the EU's own regulations cannot be discarded in ordinary waste, lest the mercury leach into the water supply.
  • (5) A steady decline in the incidence with an increase in the preponderance of male cases was observed toward the west, reaching the lowest figures (male: 17.2 cases per 100,000 population; female: 5.5 per 100,000) in the Caspian rain belt, with its heavily leached soils and somewhat subtropical characteristcs.
  • (6) In spite of the leaching and contamination effects described in the literature--even for chrysotile fibrils taken from the lung, elemental spectra do not differ essentially from the asbestos standard.
  • (7) Contamination of cells by impurity atoms that may leach from electrodes was measured by atomic-absorption spectrophotometry and found to be negligible.
  • (8) "The UK economy faces a difficult period over the coming years, but if the government holds firm with the implementation of the spending review, long-term growth and employment prospects will be significantly improved," said Graeme Leach, chief economist and director of policy at the IoD.
  • (9) Once the pollution has ceased, it would appear that the arsenic is rapidly leached away, with a return to ecological normality this recovery was surprisingly rapid and complete.
  • (10) The surface is stabilized, i.e., leaching is retarded, by the rapid Ca,P-accumulation within the silica structure before apatite crystals are observed on the surface.
  • (11) In Dr Leach's book, a 13-year-old talking about the fall-out from her parents' break-up says: "I felt I'd vanished."
  • (12) Some cells, however, showed evidence that intracytoplasmic materials had been leached from the cells.
  • (13) Diethyl phthalate in the desiccant in 100-count bottles of brand A levothyroxine sodium tablets appeared to have leached into the tablets.
  • (14) With the leach tank incident in December there were questions raised about our environmental performance.
  • (15) The tendency of composites to leach filler elements almost linearly with time, could be used to generate a constant release rate of such therapeutic elements over time.
  • (16) Dissolution is incongruent, probably because most of the leached species can derive both from the matrix (polysalt gel) and the partly reacted glass particles.
  • (17) There was no evidence of energy-dependent extrusion of water or ions from either equilibrated rat or rabbit renal cortical slices leached at 0.5 degrees C and then reincubated at 25 degrees C in choline Ringer.7.
  • (18) Leach has also just been appointed advisory chair of next year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, reinforcing the sense that she and Twofour have earned their place at the TV industry's top table.
  • (19) Upon harvest (three months after application), a total of 49.2% of the applied radiocarbon was recovered: 2.0% in the plants, 46.9% in the soil, and 0.3% in the leaching water (depth greater than 50 cm); less than 0.1% was in the grains (0.464 ppm).
  • (20) The power requirements for initial leaching conditions were also calculated.

Lech


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (2) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
  • (3) Kaczynski is the co-founder, along with his late twin brother and former Polish president Lech, of the Law and Justice party – the second largest member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group after the Tories.
  • (4) A Committee was appointed in 1973 by the National Board of Health and Welfare, which initiated a number of breast feeding promoting activities: the editing of a Manual for health personnel, and booklets for mothers, the systematic arranging of workshops for key personnel in each county, stimulation to more flexible and breast feeding favouring maternity routines, backing of working groups of La Leche League-type, etc.
  • (5) "Jaroslaw Kaczynski was practising politics from the 19th century, fighting with Germany and Russia and going on about Smolensk," he said, a reference to the plane crash in 2010 that killed Kaczynski's twin brother Lech, a former Polish president.
  • (6) The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning.
  • (7) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (8) Zych also remembered the late president Lech Kaczynski and MPs who died with him in a plane crash last year.
  • (9) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
  • (10) Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe.
  • (11) Ninety-six people died including the country’s president, Lech Kaczyński, who was the twin brother of leader of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński.
  • (12) A historical witch hunt for “communist agents” has even extended to hero trade union leader Lech Wałęsa .
  • (13) In the early 1990s he was initially a close collaborator with president Lech Walesa, but later, after a sharp rupture, became his fierce political opponent.
  • (14) To increase the range of the feeding and caretaking behaviors hypothesized to be relevant determinants of early crying, home observations and diary records were analyzed from samples of two subcultures of American middle-class women (La Leche League and "standard care" mothers; each n = 16) differing primarily in such practices.
  • (15) Lech Kaczynski, who has died aged 60, had been Poland's president since 2005, its fourth since the country broke free from the Soviet bloc in 1989.
  • (16) Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and leader of the Solidarity trade union in communist times, said Palikot had successfully tapped into issues neglected by other parties.
  • (17) His political home is the Law and Justice party of the Kaczynski twin brothers, Lech, the Polish president, and Jaroslaw, former prime minister.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński in 2005.
  • (19) The received wisdom says St Anton is for the young ski-and-party-hard set, Lech and Zürs are playgrounds for the European elite and Stuben is a good-value family option.
  • (20) In neighbouring Poland, the founder of the anti-communist Solidarity movement and former president Lech Walesa called Havel "a great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy".