Leak

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Leak \Leak\ (l[=e]k), n. [Akin to D. lek leaky, a leak, G. leck,
     Icel. lekr leaky, Dan. l[ae]k leaky, a leak, Sw. l[aum]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.
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     2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack,
        fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the
        ship's pumps.
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     3. (Elec.) A loss of electricity through imperfect
        insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     4. an act of urinating; -- used mostly in the phrase
  
     {take a leak}, i. e. to urinate. [vulgar]
        [PJC]
  
     5. The disclosure of information that is expected to be kept
        confidential; as, leaks by the White House staff
        infuriated Nixon; leaks by the Special Prosecutor were
        criticized as illegal.
        [PJC]
  
     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Leak \Leak\, a.
     Leaky. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Leak \Leak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaked} (l[=e]kt); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Leaking}.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen,
     Icel. leka, Dan. l[ae]kke, Sw. l[aum]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.
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     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.
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     {To leak out}, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to
        become public; as, the facts leaked out.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  leak
       n 1: an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light
            etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a
            leak"
       2: soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
       3: a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" [syn: {wetting},
           {making water}, {passing water}]
       4: 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" [syn: {escape}, {leakage}, {outflow}]
       5: unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of
          confidential information [syn: {news leak}]
       v 1: tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper"
       2: be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" [syn: {leak
          out}]
       3: 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"
       4: have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or
          go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks
          badly"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  207 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  leak n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that
     occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are
     finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to
     eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. {memory leak}
     and {fd leak} have their own entries; one might also refer, to, say, a
     `window handle leak' in a window system.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  leak
       
           With a qualifier, one of a class of
          resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not
          freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they
          effectively disappear (leak out).  This leads to eventual
          exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.
       
          One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a {window
          system}.
       
          See {memory leak}, {fd leak}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-04-18)