bleed
Definitions
General Science
Cars & Driving
- verb to drain fluid from (a hydraulic system), usually to remove any air which may have found its way in
Computing
- noun a line of printing that runs off the edge of the paper
- noun a badly adjusted colour monitor in which colours of adjoining pixels blend
Information & Library Science
- noun a page design where the illustrations run off the edge of the trimmed page
- noun overtrimmed margins when binding, cutting off the edge of the type
Marketing
- noun an illustration or text which runs right to the edge of the printed page
- verb to allow advertising space to run to the edge of a printed page
Media Studies
- noun a graphic or piece of text, printed so that it runs off the edge of the page
- verb to print something or be printed so that the colours run into each or beyond the edge of an illustration
- verb to print something or be printed so that part of a text or graphic is missing when the page is trimmed
Publishing
- noun an illustration that runs off the edge of the paper
- noun ink that changes colour, often by chemical reaction when laminating
Real Estate
- verb to allow unwanted air to escape from a radiator by opening a valve at the top
Origin & History of “bleed”
As its form suggests, bleed is a derivative of blood, but a very ancient one. from Germanic *blōtham ‘blood’ was formed the verb *blōthjan ‘emit blood’, which came into Old English as blēdan, ancestor of bleed.
