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Leak Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Leak?
[n] unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
[n] the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" [n] an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak" [n] a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" [n] soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi [v] have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaks" [v] enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack" [v] be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" [v] tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper" Synonyms | Synonyms for Leak: escape | leak out | leakage | making water | outflow | passing water | wetting Related Terms | Find terms related to Leak: abysm | abyss | aperture | arroyo | babble | babbling | be indiscreet | be revealed | be unguarded | become known | betray | betray a confidence | betrayal | blab | blabber | blabbering | blabbing | blurt | blurt out | box canyon | breach | break | breakout | broaching | canyon | cavity | chap | chasm | check | chimney | chink | clearing | cleft | cleuch | clough | col | come out | come to naught | come to nothing | communication leak | coulee | couloir | crack | cranny | crevasse | crevice | cut | cwm | dead giveaway | defile | deliverance | delivery | dell | dike | discharge | disclose | disclosure | dissipate | distill | distillation | ditch | divulgation | divulge | divulgement | divulgence | divulging | donga | draw | dribble | drip | dripping | drippings | drop | emergence | escape | escapism | evasion | evulgation | excavation | extravasate | extrication | exudation | exude | fault | fenestra | fissure | fistula | flaw | flight | flume | fontanel | foramen | fracture | freeing | furrow | gap | gape | gash | gat | getaway | give away | giveaway | go to pot | go to seed | go to waste | gorge | groove | gulch | gulf | gully | hiatus | hole | hollow | incision | indiscretion | inform | inform on | inlet | interval | issuance | issue | jailbreak | joint | kloof | lacuna | laying open | leak away | leak out | leakage | leaking | let drop | let fall | let slip | letting out | liberation | make known | make public | moat | notch | nullah | obvious clue | ooze | oozing | opening | opening up | orifice | out | outlet | pass | passage | passageway | peach | pore | prisonbreak | puncture | rat | ravine | release | rent | rescue | reveal a secret | revelation | riddance | rift | rime | run to seed | run to waste | rupture | scissure | seam | seep | seepage | seeping | setting-free | sing | slit | slot | space | spill | spill the beans | split | squeal | stoma | stool | talk | tattle | tattle on | tear | tell on | tell secrets | tell tales | telltale | telltale sign | throwing open | transpire | trench | trickle | trill | uncorking | unstopping | unwitting disclosure | valley | vent | void | wadi | weep | yawn See Also | bilge | break | break | bring out | bust | come forth | come out | discharge | disclose | disclosure | discover | divulge | egress | emerge | expose | fall apart | get around | get out | give away | go forth | hole | impart | issue | let on | let out | micturition | outpouring | reveal | revealing | revelation | run | soft rot | take in water | urination | wear | wear out Leak In Webster's Dictionary \Leak\, n. [Akin to D. lek leaky, a leak, G. leck, Icel.
lekr leaky, Dan. l[ae]k leaky, a leak, Sw. l["a]ck; cf. AS.
hlec full of cracks or leaky. Cf. {Leak}, v.]
1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or
other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a
leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe. ``One leak will sink
a ship.'' --Bunyan.
2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack,
fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the
ship's pumps.
{To spring a leak}, to open or crack so as to let in water;
to begin to let in water; as, the ship sprung a leak.
\Leak\, a. Leaky. [Obs.] --Spenser. \Leak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaking}.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen, Icel. leka, Dan. l[ae]kke, Sw. l["a]cka, AS. leccan to wet, moisten. See {Leak}, n.] 1. To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks. 2. To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc.; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out. {To leak out}, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out. \Leak\, n. (Elec.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs. |
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