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Definition of 'leak'English
Noun
( leak)
( en-noun)
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
- a leak in a gas pipe
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.
- The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
- The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .
(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- resource leak
- memory leak
An act of urination.
- I have to take a leak .
Verb
( en-verb)
To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
- The faucet has been leaking since last month.
To reveal secret information.
- ''Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
Adjective
( en-adj)
(obsolete) Leaky.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
- Yet is the bottle leake , and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].
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