Leech

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.

   “The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.”

2. isim A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion.

   “'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.”

3. isim A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
4. fiil To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

   “The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.”

5. fiil To drain (resources) without giving back.

   “Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.”

6. isim A physician.

   “Many skillful leeches him abide to salve his hurts.”

7. isim A healer.

   “Their functions are threefold, those of the medicine-man (the leech, or healer by supernatural means); of the soothsayer (the prophet through communion with the invisible world); and of the priest, especially in his capacity as exorcist”

8. fiil To treat, cure or heal.

   “1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.”

9. isim The vertical edge of a square sail.

   “To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.”

10. isim The aft edge of a triangular sail.

    “Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib.”

11. özel isim A surname originating as an occupation, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.