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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



... a Spaniard bound for Valparaiso, but she had lost two men—washed overboard in the storm—and been a good deal knocked about. In fact, I began to think that my end had only been postponed for a few hours. She had sprung a leak, the water seemed to be gaining, and after a short rest I took my turn at the pumps with the crew. However, we rode out the storm, and then, two or three days later, we lay becalmed for three weeks. She ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... that your wines don't ferment or leak [the t of the MS. has a k overit.] Always carry a gimlet, adze, and linen cloths; and wash the heads of ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... were puzzled and angry over their failure to locate the "leak." Somehow arms were being shipped across the border into Chihuahua from American soil, but just how had hitherto baffled all the efforts of their ingenuity ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... not know," answered Hymbercourt. "Let me think it all over, and I will see you at your house to-night. Of this I am certain: you must not move in the matter. If you are known to be interested, certain facts may leak out that would ruin you and perhaps bring trouble to one who already bears a burden too heavy for young shoulders. We know but one useful fact: Calli and Campo-Basso are at the bottom of this evil. The duke suspects that the states adjacent ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... what deprives me of my rest and, as a lover of our vast and beneficent art-wealth, poisons my waking hours. That art-wealth is at the mercy of a leak there appears no means of stopping." She had tapped a spring in him, clearly, and the consequent flood might almost at any moment become copious. "Precious things are going out of our distracted country at a quicker ...
— The Outcry • Henry James


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