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单词 soakage
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soakagen.

Brit. /ˈsəʊkɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsoʊkɪdʒ/
Etymology: < soak v. + -age suffix.
1.
a. Liquid which has filtered or oozed out.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > [noun]
soakage1766
1766 Compl. Farmer at Turnep Water which happens to be the soakage of a dung-yard.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 244 He could, by taking the whole soakage of the hill, produce a river capable of turning a considerable mill.
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 i. 118 They have to throw out the great soakage of water from the rivers Welland and Glen.
1884 Daily News 24 Sept. 3/4 The water in it gets contaminated by soakage from the gutter.
attributive.1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 284 A soakage drain on each side of it.
b. Australian. A soak, a waterhole.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > small body or puddle > [noun] > soak-hole
soak-hole1883
soak1894
mickery1898
soakage1898
1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 11 261 A small pool of water, evidently a soakage from the surrounding country.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Soak, or Soakage, a Western and Central Australian term.
2. Liquid or moisture absorbed.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > [noun] > that which is absorbed
soakage1830
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. vi. 205 The original twenty gallons come off less by the soakage.
3. The process of percolating or soaking through. Also attributive, in Australian and New Zealand use.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > action or process
soak1598
drenching1626
sobbing1664
saturation1732
flooding1799
swamping1802
drench1807
water-soaking1849
soddening1852
soakage1867
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > through any medium or space > passing through a porous medium
sipec888
oozinga1398
siping1503
sying1530
filtering1576
filtration1602
percolation1613
transudation1617
filtrature1670
ooze1718
transuding1756
sap1794
seepage1825
sipage1825
percolating1861
soakage1867
bleeding1926
1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia v. 102 The escape of the rainfall was by simple soakage.
1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 105 I'm afraid there may have been soakage from that manure-heap into the well.
1904 A. St. H. Gibbons Africa I. ii. 25 In so thirsty a country as Africa evaporation and soakage must be very considerable.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xx. 196 These surface swellings are the result of a blocked soakage system.
1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King iv. 30 Often you can dig in a dry creek-bed and obtain soakage water if you dig in the right place.
1937 E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness vi. 53 At the crude soakage wells provided, he [sc. a white man] camps in the evenings.
4. The fact of lying in soak.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [noun]
steepc1430
soakingc1440
steepingc1440
imbibing1584
imbution1657
insuccation1664
soakage1855
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Soakage, act of soaking; state of being soaked.
1863 Possibilities of Creation 188 His flesh, converted into a species of spermaceti..by long soakage in running water.
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5. The residual electric charge of a cable or condenser ( Cent. Dict. Suppl., citing Houston).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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