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Trickle vs Bleed - What's the difference?

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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)
  • A very thin river.
  • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
  • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
  • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
  • 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.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
  • 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.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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    bleed

    English

    Verb

  • (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.
  • *:
  • *:And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete
  • (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.
  • *Alexander Pope
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms

    * bleed dry * bleeder * bleeding heart * bleed out * bleed to death * bleed white

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.