Leak
[liːk] or [lik]
Definition
(noun.) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information.
(noun.) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; 'one of the tires developed a leak'.
(noun.) a euphemism for urination; 'he had to take a leak'.
(noun.) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi.
(verb.) have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; 'The container leaked gasoline'; 'the roof leaks badly'.
(verb.) enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; 'Water leaked out of the can into the backpack'; 'Gas leaked into the basement'.
(verb.) be leaked; 'The news leaked out despite his secrecy'.
(verb.) tell anonymously; 'The news were leaked to the paper'.
Typed by Avery--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) 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.
(v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
(a.) Leaky.
(n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Nigel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fissure (letting a liquid in or out), chink, crevice, hole.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OOZE]
Inputed by Alan
Definition
n. a crack or hole in a vessel through which liquid may pass: the oozing of any fluid through an opening.—v.i. to let any fluid into or out of a vessel through a leak.—ns. Leak′age a leaking: that which enters or escapes by leaking: an allowance for leaking; Leak′iness.—adj. Leak′y having leaks: letting any liquid in or out.—Leak out to find vent to get to the public ears; Spring a leak to begin to let in water.
Typed by Anton
Examples
- If the leak is quite low, as at _c_, the issuing stream has a still greater speed and strength, and gushes forth with a force determined by the height of the water above _c_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We got a gang of men, cut the current off for several junction-boxes, and fixed the leak. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was a leak in one of our junction-boxes, and on account of the cellars extending under the street, the top soil had become insulated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Usually a leak in a dam or reservoir occurs near the bottom. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The cylinder would leak. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When, in addition to this infernal leak, the wires north to Cleveland worked badly, it required a large amount of imagination to get the sense of what was being sent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is of enormous importance that nothing further should leak out. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It also leaked out that many of the men who had signed their paroles, intended to desert and go to their homes as soon as they got out of our lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Learning had already leaked out to other less pledged and controlled people, who thought for themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I concluded it was either leakage of gas into the manhole, or else the acid used in pickling the casting had given off hydrogen, and air had leaked in, making an explosive mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many of them are aimed at gas, and there are several grim summaries of death and fires due to gas-leaks or explosions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The boat leaks a little. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- An old tin can or a sponge may serve to bale out water from a leaking rowboat, but such a crude device would be absurd if employed on our huge vessels of war and commerce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- By doing this, he would permit the greater external pressure to squeeze the soil into the leaking pockets and thereby choke the leak. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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