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Definition of 'Leak' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) leak
an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes:
a leak in the roof.

2.  leak
an act or instance of leaking.

3.  leak
any means of unintended entrance or escape.

4.  leak
the loss of electric current from a conductor, usu. resulting from poor insulation.

5.  leak
a disclosure of secret, esp. official, information by an unnamed source.

6. (v.i.) leak
to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack.

7.  leak
to pass in or out in this manner.

8.  leak
to become known unintentionally (usu. fol. by out).

9. (v.t.) leak
to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape:
This camera leaks light.

10.  leak
to allow to become known, as information given out covertly.


Definition of 'Leak' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) leak
an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
"one of the tires developed a leak"

2. (noun) leak
soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi

3. (noun) leak, wetting, making water, passing water
a euphemism for urination
"he had to take a leak"

4. (noun) escape, leak, leakage, outflow
the 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"

5. (verb) leak, news leak
unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information

6. (verb) leak
tell anonymously
"The news were leaked to the paper"

7. (verb) leak, leak out
be leaked
"The news leaked out despite his secrecy"

8. (verb) leak
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"

9. (verb) leak
have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
"The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"


Definition of 'Leak' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) leak
to allow liquid or gas to come out through a crack
The pitcher is leaking; The pipe leaked water all over the bathroom.

2.  leak
(of liquid or gas) to come out through a crack
Gas leaked into the store room.

3.  leak
to give secret information to the public
The governor's office leaked the story to the press.

4. (noun) leak
liquid or gas that leaks
a major gas leak at the factory

5.  leak
a crack or hole in sth that holds liquid
We found the leak and repaired it.

6.  leak
the act of leaking information, or the person who leaks it
the leak to the newspaper; Is there a leak in the White House?


Definition of 'Leak' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Leak
leaky

2. (noun) Leak
to let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks

3. (noun) Leak
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

4.  Leak
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

5.  Leak
the entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps


Definitions of 'Leak' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  Leak
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 has its own entry; one might also refer, to, say, a window handle leak in a window system.


Definition of 'Leak' The Standard Electrical Dictionary 

1.  Leak
A loss or escape of electricity by accidental connection either with the ground or with some conductor. There are various kinds of leak to which descriptive terms are applied.


Translation of 'Leak' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a crack or hole through which liquid or gas escapes
Water was escaping through a leak in the pipe.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: lekplek Arabic flag Arabic: شِق أو مَسْرَب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: тек
Brazilian flag Brazilian: furo Czech flag Czech: díra, štěrbina German flag German: das Leck
Danish flag Danish: læk Greek flag Greek: σημείο διαρροής, ρωγμή, τ Spanish flag Spanish: fuga, escape
Estonian flag Estonian: lekkekoht Farsi flag Farsi: سوراخ؛ ترک Finnish flag Finnish: vuoto
French flag French: fuite Hebrew flag Hebrew: דְלִיפָה Hindi flag Hindi: छिद्र
Croatian flag Croatian: curiti Hungarian flag Hungarian: lék Indonesian flag Indonesian: bocoran
Icelandic flag Icelandic: gat, leki Italian flag Italian: crepa, fessura Japanese flag Japanese: 漏れ口
Korean flag Korean: 새는 곳(구멍) Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: plyšys, skylė Latvian flag Latvian: sūce
Malay flag Malay: bocor Dutch flag Dutch: lek Norwegian flag Norwegian: lekkasje, utetthet
Polish flag Polish: dziura Persian flag Persian: سوراخ؛ ترک Pashto flag Pashto: سورى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: furo Romanian flag Romanian: spărtură Russian flag Russian: течь
Slovak flag Slovak: štrbina Slovenian flag Slovenian: razpoka Serbian flag Serbian: pukotina
Swedish flag Swedish: läcka Thai flag Thai: รอยรั่ว Turkish flag Turkish: çatlak, yarık
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 裂縫,漏洞 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: теча Urdu flag Urdu: شگاف
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lỗ rò; khe hở Chinese flag Chinese: 漏洞

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