Leakname

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  A surname.

leaknoun/liːk/

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  A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

  • a leak in a roof
  • a leak in a boat
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  The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

  • The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  • The babies' diapers had big leaks.
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  A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.

  • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
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  The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

  • […] so even if he was the leak, we would never know.
  • I was the leak. That the government didn't like our advice, and so I decided to leak it to 'bounce' them into having to follow it.
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  A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.

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  computingengineeringmathematicsThe gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

  • resource leak
  • memory leak
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  vulgarslangAn act of urination.

  • I have to take a leak.

leakverb/liːk/

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  To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

  • The wells are believed to have been leaking oil for decades, long after the operating company ceased to exist.
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  (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.

  • The faucet has been leaking since last month.
  • No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.
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  To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

  • Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
  • That's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's being charged under section 2(A) of the Official Secrets Act.
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  To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.

  • A target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer.
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  To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.

  • England were leaking penalties as Scotland played with pace and variety. Russell was starting to find his range and when he threaded through a grubber to Sean Maitland the winger did well to gather and keep the ball in play. Unfortunately, his pass inside just eluded Russell.
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  slangTo emit bodily fluids:

  • I had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.
  • Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.
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  slangTo emit bodily fluids:

  • He shanked him, now he's leaking.
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  vulgarslangTo emit bodily fluids:

leakadj/liːk/

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  obsoleteLeaky.

  • Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].