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:

    Remember March, the Ides of March remember.
    Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?
    What villain touched his body, that did stab
    And not for justice?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

    I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
    Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)