Trickle vs Bleed - What's the difference?
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A very thin river.
A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
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To move or roll slowly.
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(of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
:If her nose bleeds try to use ice.
To let or draw blood from an animal.
To take large amounts of money from.
To steadily lose (something vital).
:The company was bleeding talent.
(of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
(obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
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(copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
:He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
:A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
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*:For me the balm shall bleed .
(phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
:Labialization bleeds palatalization.
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
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).
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
In transitive terms the difference between trickle and bleed
is that trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously while bleed is to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.trickle
English
Noun
(en noun)- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Verb
(trickl)- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
- 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.
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