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
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 Leach is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-large ...
, United States, an unincorporated community
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Leach Range
The Leach Range is a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeas ...
, a mountain range in Nevada, United States
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River Leach
The River Leach is a river tributary to the River Thames, in England which runs mostly in Gloucestershire. It is approximately 18 miles (29 km) long, springing from the limestone uplands of the Cotswolds. In parts of its course it becomes a ...
, England, United Kingdom
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Leach Nunatak
Leach Nunatak () is a nunatak west-southwest of Mount Ronne in the Haines Mountains, Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41) and by the United States Geological Survey from surve ...
, 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 was ...
, 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 and Perth Airport with the city of Fremantle.
It is allocated State Route 7 and is a dual carriageway for its enti ...
, 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 & C ...
, 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)
Leach or Leach Steamer was an veteran era American automobile company in Everett, MA from 1899 to 1901Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry, McFarland, 17 Nov 2015
History
John M. Leach turned his Everett Cycle Company into Leach Motor ...
, 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)
Leach (sometimes leech) was a popular medieval sweetmeat (confection) consisting of a thick, jelly-like preserve which set hard enough to be sliced for serving.
They consisted of sugar and flavourings such as almonds, dates, dried fruit, peel and ...
, 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-stor ...
, 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, is a large genus of orchids, with perhaps 500 species. The generic name ''Stelis'' is the Greek word for 'mistletoe', referring to the epiphytic habit of these species. These mainly epiphytic (rarely lithophytic) p ...
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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 amoun ...
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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''), a character from ...
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