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Definition of 'leech'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) leech
any bloodsucking annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, as the European Hirudo medicinalis, once used widely for bloodletting.

2.  leech
a person who clings to another for personal gain, esp. without giving anything in return; parasite.

3.  leech
Archaic. an instrument used for drawing blood.

4. (v.t.) leech
to apply leeches to, so as to bleed.

5.  leech
to cling to and feed upon or drain, as a leech does; exhaust; deplete.

6.  leech
Archaic. to cure; heal.

7. (v.i.) leech
to hang on to a person in the manner of a leech.

8. (Archaic.) leech
a physician.

9. (n.) leech
either of the lateral edges of a square sail.

10.  leech
the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail.

Etymology: (1350–1400; leche, ME

Definition of 'leech'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) leech, bloodsucker, hirudinean
carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

2. (verb) leech, parasite, sponge, sponger
a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

3. (verb) bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise
draw blood
"In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"

Definition of 'leech'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) leech
see 2d Leach

2. (noun) leech
the border or edge at the side of a sail

3. (noun) leech
a physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing

4. (noun) leech
any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species

5. (noun) leech
a glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum

6. (verb) leech
see Leach, v. t

7. (verb) leech
to treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds

8. (verb) leech
to bleed by the use of leeches

Definitions of 'leech'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. leech
1. n. (Also leecher.) Among BBS types, crackers and warez d00dz, one who consumes knowledge without generating new software, cracks, or techniques. BBS culture specifically defines a leech as someone who downloads files with few or no uploads in return, and who does not contribute to the message section. Cracker culture extends this definition to someone (a lamer, usually) who constantly presses informed sources for information and/or assistance, but has nothing to contribute. See troughie.

2. v. [common, Toronto area] v. To download a file across any kind of internet link. “Hop on IRC later so I can leech some MP3s from you.” Used to describe activities ranging from FTP, to IRC DCC-send, to ICQ file requests, to Napster searches (but never to downloading email with file attachments; the implication is that the download is the result of a browse or search of some sort of file server). Seems to be a holdover from the early 1990s when Toronto had a very active BBS and warez scene. Synonymous with snarf (sense 2), and contrast snarf (sense 4).

Translation of 'leech'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a kind of blood-sucking worm.
Afrikaans: bloedsuier	Arabic: عَلَق	Bulgarian: пиявица
Brazilian: sanguessuga	Czech: pijavice	German: der Blutegel
Danish: igle	Greek: βδέλλα	Spanish: sanguijuela
Estonian: kaan	Farsi: زالو	Finnish: juotikas
French: sangsue	Hebrew: עֲלוּקָה	Hindi: जोंक
Croatian: pijavica	Hungarian: pióca	Indonesian: lintah
Icelandic: igla, blóðsuga	Italian: sanguisuga	Japanese: ひる
Korean: 거머리	Lithuanian: dėlė	Latvian: dēle
Malay: pacat	Dutch: bloedzuiger	Norwegian: igle
Polish: pijawka	Persian: نوع كرم كه از خون تغذيه م	Pashto: يو ډول چنجى چى خواړه يى و
Portuguese: sanguessuga	Romanian: lipitoare	Russian: пиявка
Slovak: pijavica	Slovenian: pijavka	Serbian: pijavica
Swedish: blodigel	Thai: ปลิง	Turkish: sülük
Taiwanese: 水蛭	Ukrainian: п'явка	Urdu: خون چوسنے والا کیڑا
Vietnamese: conđỉa	Chinese: 水蛭
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