Leak

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  • intransitive verb. To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw.
  • intransitive verb. To escape or pass through a breach or flaw.
  • intransitive verb. To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy.
  • intransitive verb. To permit (a substance) to escape or pass through a breach or flaw.
  • intransitive verb. To disclose without authorization or official sanction.
  • noun. A crack or flaw that permits something to escape from or enter a container or conduit.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or instance of leaking.
  • noun. An amount leaked.
  • noun. An unauthorized or a deliberate disclosure of confidential information.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Loss of electric current as a result of faulty insulation.
  • noun. The path or place at which this loss takes place.
  • idiom. (take a leak) To urinate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Leaky.
  • To let water or other fluid, or light, etc., out of, into, or through something, by an accidental or unintentional aperture, or through permeable material: as, the eask leaks; the ship is leaking; the roof leaks.
  • To ooze or pass, as water or other fluid, or anything that can flow, as grain, through an aperture.
  • To void water or urine.
  • To let out or in (especially some fluid) by an accidental aperture: as, the pipe leaks gas; the roof leaks rain; the camera leaks light.
  • To make leaky.
  • noun. An aperture by which anything that can flow, especially water or other fluid, passes out of, into, or through anything intended to contain, exclude, or restrain it; a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole that permits the passage of anything intended to be shut in or out: as, a leak in a cask, ship, dam, or dike; to stop or plug a leak.
  • noun. The oozing or passing of a fluid, etc., into, out of, or through anything by an accidental or unintentional aperture or through a permeable medium; leakage.
  • noun. A gutter.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Leaky.
  • intransitive verb. To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, .
  • noun. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape
  • noun. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  • noun. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
  • noun. an act of urinating; -- used mostly in the phrase take a leak, i. e. to urinate.
  • noun. The disclosure of information that is expected to be kept confidential.
  • noun. to open or crack so as to let in water; to begin to let in water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  • noun. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  • noun. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret util then.
  • noun. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
  • noun. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  • noun. A draining of one's urine (especially of a man)
  • verb. To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
  • verb. To reveal secret information.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. tell anonymously
  • noun. soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
  • verb. enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
  • verb. have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
  • noun. unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
  • verb. be leaked
  • noun. an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
  • noun. a euphemism for urination
  • noun. the discharge of a fluid from some container
  • Word Usage
    "Let the word leak out that you knew there was a chance he went missing but refused to say anything."