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Definition of Soakage
1. Noun. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid). "A good soak put life back in the wagon"
Generic synonyms: Action, Activity, Natural Action, Natural Process
Derivative terms: Soak, Soak, Soak, Soak
Definition of Soakage
1. n. The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.
Definition of Soakage
1. Noun. The act of soaking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soakage
1. the act of soaking [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soakage
Literary usage of Soakage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of Embanking Lands from the Sea, Treated as a Means of by John Wiggins (1852)
"Some soakage through and below the I bank will always take place, and when the
ground I is adhesive, this can he intercepted by a ..."
2. The Queensland Law Journal Reports by W. H. Osborne (1894)
"What provision was made against soakage ? One of their own witnesses says, ...
So that, if soakage caused the accident, and the defendants' contention that ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"... without any protection against the constant soakage of water into the walls,
with roofs that are often defective, etc., etc,—such are the homes in which ..."
4. A Treatise on Public Health and Its Applications in Different European by Albert Julius Palmberg (1895)
"—Height of houses and rooms.—Courtyards, rain--i'dter pipes and guttering.— Wells,
cisterns, pits, cesspools, soakage-wells. ..."
5. The Etiology of typhoid fever and its prevention by William Henry Corfield (1902)
"On this being discovered an excavation was made between the well and the yard
wall and a line of soakage disclosed along the foundation of the wall through ..."
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