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
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Places
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Leach, Oklahoma
Leach is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States, along U.S. Route 412 and 412 Alternate. The population was 237 at the 2010 census.
History
The community has the ...
, 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
Camp Leach, formerly known as the American University Experimental Station and Camp American University, was a World War I era United States Army camp built by the Corps of Engineers on American University property in Washington, D.C. It wa ...
, 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
Leach Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. It is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) northeast of the central business district of Center, Colorado, at County Road 53 & ...
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Leach (automobile)
Leach-Biltwell Motor Company manufactured and distributed the Leach Luxury car, luxury automobile from 1919 to 1924 in Los Angeles, California.
History
Leach-Biltwell Motor Company was a West Coast of the United States, west-coast automobile ...
, an American luxury automobile manufacturer from 1919 to 1924
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Leach (steam automobile company)
Leach or Leach Steamer was a veteran era American automobile company in Everett, Massachusetts, from 1899 to 1901.Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry, McFarland, 17 November 2015
History
John M. Leach turned his Everett Cycle Company i ...
, an American automobile manufacturer of the Leach steamer from 1899 to 1901
Other uses
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Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy ("LEACH") is a TDMA-based MAC protocol which is integrated with clustering and a simple routing protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The goal of LEACH is to lower the energy consumption required to c ...
(LEACH), a routing protocol in wireless sensor networks
* "Leach", a song by Cryptopsy off their album ''
The Unspoken King
''The Unspoken King'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian death metal band Cryptopsy. The album was released on May 26, 2008 in Europe, and June 24, 2008 in the US by Century Media Records. It was the last album to feature guitarist Alex Aubur ...
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Leach (food)
A leach (sometimes leech or leche) was a popular medieval sweetmeat (confection) consisting of a thick, jelly-like preserve which set hard enough to be sliced for serving.
The pastry consisted of sugar and flavourings such as almonds, dates, drie ...
, 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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