Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LEECH

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Definitions of LEECH

1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
2. (figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
3. (medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
4. (transitive, literally) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.
6. (archaic) A physician.
7. (Germanic paganism) A healer.
8. (archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal.
9. (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
10. (nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.
11. A occupations surname from occupations, derived from the profession leech, a former word for a physician.

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Examples of Using LEECH in a Sentence

• Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
• His scratchy pen-and-ink style is influenced by the impressionists, illustrators of the age of "liberated penmanship" such as Phil May, Charles Dana Gibson, John Leech and George du Maurier, and cartoonists Milton Caniff and Frank Frazetta (particularly his Johnny Comet strip).
• A mural for the new post office built in 1937 was commissioned by the WPA and painted by Hilton Leech to commemorate this event.
• Leech Maskrey, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Louisville Eclipse/Colonels and Cincinnati Red Stockings.
• The serving script compiles a listing of available files, and also listens for a leech to request a file.
• In the classification of finite simple groups, twenty of twenty-six sporadic groups in the happy family are part of three families of groups which divide the order of the friendly giant, the largest sporadic group: five first generation Mathieu groups, seven second generation subquotients of the Leech lattice, and eight third generation subgroups of the friendly giant.
• Leech catered to contemporary prejudices, such as anti-Americanism and antisemitism and supported acceptable social reforms.
• In 1609, Andreas Loeaechius (Andrew Leech), a Scot living in Kraków, Poland, wrote a Latin panegyric to Shirley entitled Encomia Nominis & Neoocij D.
• All the subquotients of the automorphism group of a lattice in 24 dimensions called the Leech lattice:.
• Hughes (Phyllis Logan) says it is impossible for lady's maid Edna Braithwaite (Myanna Burring) to be pregnant because Edna owns a copy of Married Love, suggesting that she understands methods of birth control, and therefore could not be pregnant by Tom Branson (Allen Leech).
• The Golay code, together with the related Witt design, features in a construction for the 196560 minimal vectors in the Leech lattice.
• The inner product on the Leech lattice is defined as 1/8 the sum of the products of respective co-ordinates of the two multiplicand vectors; it is an integer.
• The automorphism group of the complex Leech lattice is the universal cover 6 · Suz of the Suzuki group.
• The show follows him as he tries to perform elaborate practical jokes, or pranks, on people in the fictional town of East Gackle, as his best friend, Danny Pickett, helps him out with almost every prank; his antagonists include: his older sister, Jen Larkin; and the bullies Peter Lik and Andrew Leech.
• Hirudo medicinalis, or the European medicinal leech, is one of several species of leeches used as medicinal leeches.
• A number of mutants, such as Cecilia Reyes, Maggott, Ape, Tarbaby, Leech and many others were arrested by Weapon X's agents and sent to Neverland.
• His reputation is based on the two volumes of essays, Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours) (1858, 1861), John Leech and Other Papers (1882), Rab and His Friends (1859), and Marjorie Fleming: a Sketch (1863) (generally called Pet Marjorie).
• Annelids such as the leech use smaller blast cells budded off from large teloblast cells to define segments.
• The dam is prominently featured in the Smallville episode "Leech," where Clark Kent loses his powers via a lightning strike while attempting to save a classmate from jumping from the dam, as well as in the episode "Dichotic" in the second season.
• The rules also prohibit the use of hiking straps, trapezes, leech cords, Barber haulers, twings or self-bailers.
• Brails run from the leech of a fore-and-aft rigged sail (a spanker or lateen mizzen, for example) to the gaff and mast and serve the same function as buntlines: to haul in the sail when furling.
• The members of the White Earth, Mille Lacs, and Leech Lake reservations all voted overwhelmingly to accept land allotments and allow the surplus land sold to the whites, with the tribes to receive lump sums of money from the sales.
• Mary Jarred, contralto; The BBC Orchestra, Section F; Clarence Raybould, conductor Elgar's Interpreters on Record, Volume 5: Broadcasts from the Leech Collection at the British Library (1935–1950) Elgar Society EECD003-005 ("Sea Slumber Song" complete, "Sabbath Morning at Sea" to bar 84, "The Swimmer" bars between 74 and 107 are missing).
• Earlier applications include Frenkel's determination of upper bounds on the root multiplicities of the Kac–Moody Lie algebra whose Dynkin diagram is the Leech lattice, and Borcherds's construction of a generalized Kac–Moody Lie algebra that contains Frenkel's Lie algebra and saturates Frenkel's 1/∆ bound.
• She remained as a supporting character through X-Factor #33, but during the events of Inferno, she formed the X-Terminators along with peers Boom-Boom, Rusty Collins, and Rictor, as well as younger mutant children Artie Maddicks, Leech, and Wiz Kid, in X-Terminators #1-4 (1988).

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