Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person, such as a hemophiliac, who bleeds freely or is subject to frequent hemorrhages.
- noun Slang A blood vessel from which there is uncontrolled bleeding.
- noun A blood vessel severed by trauma or surgery that requires cautery or ligature to arrest the flow of blood.
- noun A person who draws blood from another; a phlebotomist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., a pipe which leads steam from the pressure-line to the intermediate or low-pressure cylinder of the engine or to the condenser.
- noun One who lets blood.
- noun A person who is naturally predisposed to bleed. See
hemophilia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, draws blood.
- noun One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is easily made to
bleed , or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly ahemophiliac . - noun Anything that
saps a resource produced by something else. - noun A
valve designed to release a small amount of excesspressure from a system. - noun UK, slang, derogatory A troublesome fellow; a
blighter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding
Etymologies
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Examples
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TODD: McElprang says the trapped miners should also try to find what they call bleeder tunnels that are designed to let dangerous gases escape, and this is all in the event that the miners are not injured or in shell shock.
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TODD (on camera): McElprang says the trapped miners should also try to find what they call bleeder tunnels that are designed to let dangerous gases escape.
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TODD (on camera): McElprang says the trapped miners should also try to find what they call bleeder tunnels that are designed to let dangerous gases escape.
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TODD: McElprang says that miners should also try to find what they call bleeder tunnels that are designed to let dangerous gases escape.
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Lost in the headlines that focused on the fact that Eli is a bit of a bleeder was the performance of Victor Cruz, who became the first player to score three touchdowns in a preseason game since Terrell Owens in 1998, with San Francisco.
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So, the fact that it's taking the air that bleeds off of the area that's been second-mined, that's how it's called a bleeder entry.
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TODD: McElprang says the trapped miners should move around if they can, to try to find so-called bleeder tunnels that are designed to let dangerous gases escape.
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When correctly applied to a major arterial or venous "bleeder," it leads to an extremely rapid separation of liquid from the blood, which, in turn, concentrates clotting and coagulation, slowing a hemorrhage with remarkable speed and effectiveness.
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The social condition of the family does not alter the predisposition; the old Duke of Albany was a "bleeder"; and bleeder families are numerous, healthy looking, and have fine, soft skins.
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As a rule the mother of a hemophile is not a "bleeder" herself, but is the daughter of one.
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