Infiltrate vs Leach - What's the difference?
infiltrate | leach |
To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
* Addison
To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
(of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
* 1894 , , In the Midst of Alarms , ch. 7:
(nautical)
To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
* '>citation
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
As a verb infiltrate
is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.As a proper noun leach is
.infiltrate
English
Verb
(infiltrat)- The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
Derived terms
* infiltration * infiltrative * infiltrator ----leach
English
Noun
(leaches)- "This is the leach ," said Kitty, pointing to a large, yellowish, upright wooden cylinder, which rested on some slanting boards, down the surface of which ran a brownish liquid that dripped into a trough.
Verb
- Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
