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Leach vs Lease - What's the difference?

leach | lease |

As a proper noun leach

is .

As a verb lease is

(chiefly dialectal) to gather or lease can be to tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate or lease can be to release; let go; unloose or lease can be to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).

As an adjective lease is

false; lying; deceptive.

As a noun lease is

falsehood; a lie or lease can be an open pasture or common or lease can be a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent or lease can be the place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

leach

English

Noun

(leaches)
  • 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:
    • "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.
  • (nautical)

    • Verb

  • To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
    • Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
  • * '>citation
  • To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

    • Usage notes

    Do not confuse this verb with the verb .

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

    *

    lease

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • (chiefly dialectal) to gather.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • false; lying; deceptive
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • falsehood; a lie

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an open pasture or common
  • *1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
  • *:Since as a child I used to lie
  • *:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
  • *:Never, I own, expected I
  • *:That life would all be fair.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To release; let go; unloose.

    • Etymology 6

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
  • To take or hold by lease.
  • To grant a lease; to let or rent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
  • The period of such a contract
  • A leasehold

    • Related terms

    * lessor, lessee

    Etymology 7

    From (leash)

    Noun

  • The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

    • Anagrams

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