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  • noun The seepage of ink from one side of a printed page to the other
  • noun The discolouration of a wood veneer due to seepage of glue
  • noun A weak imprint of magnetic information transferred to adjacent layers of audiotape, resulting in an unwanted echo.

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Examples

  • The bleed-through in awareness was always from sideways to island … never the other way around.

    All dogs don’t necessarily go to heaven : Bev Vincent 2010

  • You can see a lot of bleed-through in the FX scenes, which makes it even cooler.

    Pre-70s sci-fi cinema titles Randy Wilharm 2009

  • You can see a lot of bleed-through in the FX scenes, which makes it even cooler.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Randy Wilharm 2009

  • Jen: I interpreted that moment as you did: a bleed-through.

    'Lost' Dueling Analysis: 'The Last Recruit' 2010

  • Its observance bleed-through is second only to Christmas.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • Even as Iain Banks, the mainstream writer, there has been bleed-through from his science fiction persona, Iain M Banks.

    An Unreliable Review: Transition, by Iain Banks « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009

  • Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life" talks about "bleed-through", and if I recall correctly, I don't have the book to hand gives examples such as two adult women who usually play child characters in Second Life, who played a child's game with each other when they met in real life.

    BIG News from Great Britain: VWs Make People Lonely and Sick 2009

  • And considering how loud Moonie would drum and the weakness of those late 60s baffles, I'm guessing they had to put Keith in a separate studio in order to record without too much bleed-through of his drums onto Pete and John's mics.

    In the Studio #35 2009

  • I slid a Jumbo reference in there, because I like that sort of cross-story bleed-through every once in a while.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2008

  • It has ruled pages that are relatively thick no bleed-through, and the pages are perforated so that if you make a shopping list you can tear it out if you want to and throw it away.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

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