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Leak   /lik/   Listen
noun
Leak  n.  
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."
2.
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
3.
(Elec.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
4.
An act of urinating; used mostly in the phrase take a leak, i. e. to urinate. (vulgar)
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.
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.


verb
Leak  v. i.  (past & past part. leaked; pres. part. leaking)  
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.
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.
To leak out, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out.


adjective
Leak  adj.  Leaky. (Obs.)





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"Leak" Quotes from Famous Books



... overflow, and much is wasted before the well can be capped. In general there is no waste in storage in this country. In European countries where there is oil, the loss through lack of tanks and by using wooden tanks which leak, is very great. ...
— Checking the Waste - A Study in Conservation • Mary Huston Gregory
... a captive balloon out of action one must either riddle the envelope, causing it to leak like a sieve, blow the vessel to pieces, or ignite the highly inflammable gas with which it is inflated. Individual rifle fire will inflict no tangible damage. A bullet, if it finds its billet, will merely pass through the envelope and leave two small punctures. True, these vents will allow the ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot
... telephone-wire that day must come through the office of The Chieftain. There was but one telephone in the town; that was in the office of the stage-line, and by arrangement with its owners, the editor had bottled up the slightest chance of a leak. ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... lay. Every one rushed to the deck "with countenances which sufficiently expressed the horrors of our situation." Immediately they took in all sails, lowered the boats, and found they were on a reef of coral rocks. Two days of sickening anxiety followed, the ship sprang a leak, and they were threatened with total destruction. To their intense relief, however, the ship floated off into deep water with a high tide. Repairs were now more than ever necessary, and the poor battered collier ...
— A Book of Discovery - The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest - Times to the Finding of the South Pole • Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge
... mortar man had told him that they were the bricklayers who were building the chimneys and two of the masons who were smearing mortar over all the cracks of the wall, so that the water wouldn't leak through from ...
— The Doers • William John Hopkins


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