'Leak' definitions:
Definition of 'leak'
From: WordNet
noun
An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak"
noun
Soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
noun
A euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" [syn: leak, wetting, making water, passing water]
noun
The discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" [syn: escape, leak, leakage, outflow]
noun
Unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information [syn: leak, news leak]
verb
Tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper"
verb
Be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" [syn: leak, leak out]
verb
Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement"
verb
Have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"
Definition of 'Leak'
From: GCIDE
- Leak \Leak\, a. Leaky. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Leak'
From: GCIDE
- Leak \Leak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaked (l[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Leaking.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen, Icel. leka, Dan. l[ae]kke, Sw. l[aum]cka, AS. leccan to wet, moisten. See Leak, n.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To leak out, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Leak'
From: GCIDE
- Leak \Leak\ (l[=e]k), n. [Akin to D. lek leaky, a leak, G. leck, Icel. lekr leaky, Dan. l[ae]k leaky, a leak, Sw. l[aum]ck; cf. AS. hlec full of cracks or leaky. Cf. Leak, v.]
- 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." --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Elec.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. an act of urinating; -- used mostly in the phrase
- take a leak, i. e. to urinate. [vulgar] [PJC]
- 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. [PJC]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'leak'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aperture,
- arroyo,
- babble,
- babbling,
- be indiscreet,
- be revealed,
- be unguarded,
- become known,
- betray,
- betray a confidence,
- betrayal,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabbering,
- blabbing,
- blurt,
- blurt out,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- breakout,
- broaching,
- canyon,
- cavity,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- come out,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- communication leak,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cwm,
- dead giveaway,
- defile,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- dell,
- dike,
- discharge,
- disclose,
- disclosure,
- dissipate,
- distill,
- distillation,
- ditch,
- divulgation,
- divulge,
- divulgement,
- divulgence,
- divulging,
- donga,
- draw,
- dribble,
- drip,
- dripping,
- drippings,
- drop,
- emergence,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- evulgation,
- excavation,
- extravasate,
- extrication,
- exudation,
- exude,
- fault,
- fenestra,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- flaw,
- flight,
- flume,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fracture,
- freeing,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gat,
- getaway,
- give away,
- giveaway,
- go to pot,
- go to seed,
- go to waste,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- indiscretion,
- inform,
- inform on,
- inlet,
- interval,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- joint,
- kloof,
- lacuna,
- laying open,
- leak away,
- leak out,
- leakage,
- leaking,
- let drop,
- let fall,
- let slip,
- letting out,
- liberation,
- make known,
- make public,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- obvious clue,
- ooze,
- oozing,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- out,
- outlet,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- peach,
- pore,
- prisonbreak,
- puncture,
- rat,
- ravine,
- release,
- rent,
- rescue,
- reveal a secret,
- revelation,
- riddance,
- rift,
- rime,
- run to seed,
- run to waste,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- seep,
- seepage,
- seeping,
- setting-free,
- sing,
- slit,
- slot,
- space,
- spill,
- spill the beans,
- split,
- squeal,
- stoma,
- stool,
- talk,
- tattle,
- tattle on,
- tear,
- tell on,
- tell secrets,
- tell tales,
- telltale,
- telltale sign,
- throwing open,
- transpire,
- trench,
- trickle,
- trill,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- unwitting disclosure,
- valley,
- vent,
- void,
- wadi,
- weep,
- yawn