Meaning of leak | Babel Free

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1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape
2. A surname.
3. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
4. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
5. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture
6. To urinate.
7. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret
8. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
9. take a leak, Slang: Usu. Vulgar. to urinate.
10. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs
11. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
12. Informal. To be made public.Also used with out:break, come out, get out, out, transpire.
13. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs
14. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
15. (an act of) leaking. Leakages in several water-mains had been reported; a leakage of information. lekkasie تَسَرُّب изтичане vazamento prosakování; únik das Durchsickern lækage; udsivning διαρροήfuga, escape leke نشتی vuoto fuiteדליפה रिसाव, रहस्य खुल जाना curenje szivárgás kebocoran leki fuga, perdita 漏れ 누출 nuotėkis, nutekėjimas sūkšanās; sūce; (informācijas) noplūde kebocoran lekkagelekkasjeprzeciek سر چينه،منبع fuga scurgere утечка únik uhajanje propuštanje läckage, läckande ข้อมูลรั่ว sız...
16. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
17. a leaky boat. lekkerige يَتَسَرَّبُ منه الماء течащ furado děravý leck utæt; læk τρύπιος, που μπάζει νερά agujereado lekkiv سوراخ شده؛ چکه کننده vuotava qui fuit, percé דוֹלֶף रिसने वाला koji curi, propušta lyukas bocor lekur (che perde) 漏る 새는 구멍이 있는 kiauras caurs; ar sūci bocor lekutett, lekk cieknący, dziurawy سورۍ شوى،چكك furado neetanş, gău­rit имеющий течь deravý ki pušča koji propušta läckande, läck, otät ที่รั่ว sızdıran, kaçıran 有裂縫的，有漏洞的，會滲漏的 такий, що протікає رخنے دار، سوراخ دار bị...
18. An act of urination.
    especially, mildly, slang, vulgar
19. [of gas] escape; [water] gotera, filtración; [to ___ out] salirse, derramarse, escaparse.
20. To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw: rusted pipes that were beginning to leak; a boat leaking at the seams.
21. To escape or pass through a breach or flaw: helium leaking slowly from the balloon.
22. To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy: The news has leaked.
23. To permit (a substance) to escape or pass through a breach or flaw: a damaged reactor leaking radioactivity into the atmosphere.

Equivalents

Examples

“a leak in a roof”

“a leak in a boat”

“a leak in a gas pipe”

“The leak gained on the ship's pumps.”

“The babies' diapers had big leaks.”

“The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.”

“[…] 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.”

“If he was the leak, it wasn't intentional. The same went for her mom, not that Cat thought her mom had any friends with top-level security clearance.”

“resource leak”

“memory leak”

“I have to take a leak.”

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