单词 | soakage |
释义 | soakagen. 1. a. Liquid which has filtered or oozed out. ΘΚΠ 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. b. Australian. A soak, a waterhole. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Categories » 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). < n.1766 |
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