Leach may refer to:
People
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Leach (surname) Leach is a surname, originally denoting a physician (in reference to the medical practice of bloodletting). Notable people with the surname include:
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* Al Leach (born 1935), Canadian transportation executive and politician
* Cary Grant, Archie L ...
Places
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Leach, Oklahoma, United States, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Leach, Tennessee, United States, an unincorporated community
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Leach Range, a mountain range in Nevada, United States
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River Leach
The River Leach is a river and upper tributary to the River Thames, Thames, in England which runs almost entirely in Gloucestershire. It is approximately 18 miles (29 km) long, springing from the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds. In parts ...
, England, United Kingdom
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Leach Nunatak, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
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Camp Leach, a World War I-era US Army camp
Transportation
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Leach Highway
Leach Highway is a east-west arterial highway in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, primarily linking Kewdale, Western Australia, Kewdale and Perth Airport with the city of Fremantle.
It is allocated State Route 7 and is a dual ...
, Western Australia
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Leach Airport, Colorado, United States
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Leach (automobile), an American luxury automobile manufacturer from 1919 to 1924
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Leach (steam automobile company), an American automobile manufacturer of the Leach steamer from 1899 to 1901
Other uses
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Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH), a routing protocol in wireless sensor networks
* "Leach", a song by Cryptopsy off their album ''
The Unspoken King''
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Leach (food), jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the 1600s
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Leach Pottery
The Leach Pottery was founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
The buildings grew from an old cow / tin-ore shed in the 19th century to a pottery in the 1920s with the addition of a two-sto ...
, Cornwell, UK
* Leach phenotype, a mutation in the gene encoding
Glycophorin C
Glycophorin C (GYPC; CD236/CD236R; glycoprotein beta; glycoconnectin; PAS-2) plays a functionally important role in maintaining erythrocyte shape and regulating membrane material properties, possibly through its interaction with protein 4.1. Moreo ...
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Leach orchid
''Stelis'', or leach orchids, are a large genus of orchids, with 1339 accepted species. The generic name ''Stelis'' is the Greek word for 'mistletoe', referring to the epiphytic habit of these species. These mainly epiphytic (rarely lithophyt ...
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Leach field
Septic drain fields, also called leach fields or leach drains, are subsurface wastewater disposal facilities used to remove contaminants and impurities from the liquid that emerges after anaerobic digestion in a septic tank. Organic materials in ...
, or septic drain field
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Leaching (disambiguation)
Leaching is the loss or extraction of certain materials from a carrier into a liquid (usually, but not always a solvent), and may refer to:
* Leaching (agriculture), the loss of water-soluble plant nutrients from the soil; or applying a small amou ...
, and verb "to leach", various forms of loss or extraction of certain materials from a carrier into a liquid
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Leech (disambiguation)
Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory Annelid worms.
Leech may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Leech (1921 film)''
* ''The Leech (1956 film)''
* ''Leeches!'', a 2003 film
* Leech (Masters of the Universe), Leech (''Masters of th ...
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