Bleed

Bleeding usually means the loss of blood from the body.

Bleeding or bleed may also refer to:

  • "Bleeding the patient", or bloodletting, an practice once believed to cure diseases
  • Bleed (printing), a term for when an image or document is cut off the page
  • Ink bleeding, the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, and in opposition to external forces like gravity
  • Spill (audio), where audio from one source is picked up by a microphone intended for a different source
  • Bleed air, compressed air taken from gas turbine compressor stages
  • Bleeding (computer graphics), a computer graphics term for when a graphic object passes through another in an unwanted manner
  • Bleeding order, a relation between rules in linguistics
  • Purging air from a radiator, brake line, fuel line, etc.
  • The presence of surface water on concrete
  • Bleeder, baseball term for a weakly hit ground ball that goes for a base hit

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Famous quotes containing the word bleed:

    The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I am hurt but I am not slaine;
    Ile lay mee downe and bleed a-while
    And then Ile rise and ffight againe.
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

    English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)

    In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.
    Estelle R. Ramey (b. 1917)