soakage
IPA: sˈoʊkɪdʒ
noun
- The act of soaking.
- The amount of liquid soaked in.
- A source of water in Australian deserts, where water has seeped into the sand.
- (Ireland, informal) food or nonalcoholic beverages consumed before or during a bout of drinking to slow down the onset of drunkenness
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Examples of "soakage" in Sentences
- It is the capacitor soakage problem with much longer TCs.
- A lot of the disputes seem to be similar to the capacitor soakage problem in electronics.
- All soil which has become foul by the soakage of decaying or vegetable matter should be similarly treated.
- Naturally, it rained most of the day, but that only made it easier to ride the water rides without fear of total soakage.
- Effluent and used water from water supply points should be well drained and eventually absorbed in soakage pits or gardens.
- Then the billabong "petering out" altogether, and the soakage threatening to follow suit, its yield was kept strictly for personal needs, and Dan and the Maluka gave their attention to the elements.
- Where privy pits, soakage pits, or sewage absorption systems penetrate 'he water table of an aquifer located near the surface and shallow wells and springs whose water comes from the aquifer are contaminated.
- One old fellow was an exception to this, for instead of acquiring that expansion and sponginess to which old people are prone in this country, from the long course of internal and external soakage they experience, he had grown dry and stiff in the process of years.
- If, therefore, the stream is of narrow width, this later boring is scarcely in the position to catch more than the side soakage of the current, and it would seem that the main stream can only be tapped either by another boring further north, or by a lateral shaft from the present bore running northward till it encounters the current.
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