leach

filtrarse, rezumar

Salir de algo o entrar en ello lentamente a través de pequeños huecos.

En inglés sencillo: To flow slowly out of something or into something through small spaces.

• Chemicals leached into the river.
• Dye slowly leaches out of the fabric.
• Toxic liquid may leach from the buried waste.

Cómo se usa: leach into something (Chemicals leached into the nearby stream.); leach out of something (A dark liquid leached out of the waste.)

Sinónimos: seep, leak, bleed

Expresiones frecuentes: leach into water, leach out, leach from something

lixiviar, extraer

Eliminar una sustancia de algo haciendo pasar un líquido a través de ello.

En inglés sencillo: To remove a substance from something by passing liquid through it.

• Rain leaches nutrients from soil.
• The process leached copper from the rock.
• Can this liquid leach out harmful chemicals?

Cómo se usa: leach something from something (Rain can leach nutrients from the soil.); leach something out of something (The liquid leaches metals out of the crushed rock.)

Sinónimos: extract, wash out

Expresiones frecuentes: leach out minerals, leach nutrients, leach something from something

lixiviarse

Perder sustancias que se disuelven cuando un líquido pasa a través del material.

En inglés sencillo: To lose substances that dissolve as liquid passes through.

• Sandy soils leach easily.
• The crushed ore was leached to recover copper.
• The soil had leached badly after weeks of rain.

Expresiones frecuentes: leach under rainfall, leach in water, leach readily

montón de cenizas

Montón de ceniza de madera por el que se hace pasar agua para obtener un líquido de limpieza fuerte.

En inglés sencillo: A pile of wood ash through which water is passed to make a strong cleaning liquid.

• She poured water over the leach.
• The leach supplied liquid for making soap.
• They prepared a fresh leach from wood ashes.

Expresiones frecuentes: a leach of ashes, prepare a leach

cuba de lixiviación

Recipiente donde se hace pasar agua por ceniza o corteza para recoger las sustancias disueltas.

En inglés sencillo: A tub used to pass water through ash or bark and collect substances dissolved in it.

• They filled the leach with ashes.
• Water drained from the bottom of the leach.
• The old workshop had two wooden leaches.

Sinónimos: leaching vat

Expresiones frecuentes: a wooden leach, fill the leach

dulce de gelatina

Dulce firme, parecido a una gelatina, que se comía en la Edad Media.

En inglés sencillo: A firm, jelly-like sweet food eaten in medieval times.

• The cook served leach after dinner.
• She made leach from a medieval recipe.
• Guests ate slices of leach at the feast.

Expresiones frecuentes: sweet leach, a slice of leach, serve the leach