ALL meanings of leak
leak
L l - noun leak (of a container or covering) accidentally lose or admit contents, especially liquid or gas, through a hole or crack. 1
- noun leak an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof. 1
- noun leak an act or instance of leaking. 1
- noun leak any means of unintended entrance or escape. 1
- noun leak Electricity. the loss of current from a conductor, usually resulting from poor insulation. 1
- noun leak a disclosure of secret, especially official, information, as to the news media, by an unnamed source. 1
- verb without object leak to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack: The boat leaks. 1
- verb without object leak to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light: gas leaking from a pipe. 1
- verb without object leak to become known unintentionally (usually followed by out): The news leaked out. 1
- verb without object leak to disclose secret, especially official, information anonymously, as to the news media: The official revealed that he had leaked to the press in the hope of saving his own reputation. 1
- verb with object leak to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape: This camera leaks light. 1
- verb with object leak to allow to become known, as information given out covertly: to leak the news of the ambassador's visit. 1
- idioms leak take a leak, Slang: Vulgar. to urinate. 1
- noun Definition of leak in Technology (programming) With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a window system. See memory leak, fd leak. 1
- noun leak escaping fluid 1
- noun leak revealing secret information 1
- intransitive verb leak fluid: escape 1
- intransitive verb leak let fluid out 1
- transitive verb leak fluid: let out 1
- transitive verb leak reveal: secret information 1
- verb leak If a container leaks, there is a hole or crack in it which lets a substance such as liquid or gas escape. You can also say that a container leaks a substance such as liquid or gas. 0
- verb leak Leak is also a noun. 0
- countable noun leak A leak is a crack, hole, or other gap that a substance such as a liquid or gas can pass through. 0
- verb leak If a secret document or piece of information leaks or is leaked, someone lets the public know about it. 0
- verb leak Leak out means the same as leak. 0
- noun leak a crack, hole, etc, that allows the accidental escape or entrance of fluid, light, etc 0
- noun leak such escaping or entering fluid, light, etc 0
- noun leak something resembling this in effect 0
- noun leak the loss of current from an electrical conductor because of faulty insulation, etc 0
- noun leak a disclosure, often intentional, of secret information 0
- noun leak the act or an instance of leaking 0
- noun leak a slang word for urination 0
- verb leak to enter or escape or allow to enter or escape through a crack, hole, etc 0
- verb leak to disclose (secret information), often intentionally, or (of secret information) to be disclosed 0
- intransitive verb leak to let a fluid substance out or in accidentally 0
- intransitive verb leak to enter, or escape accidentally from, an object or container 0
- intransitive verb leak to become known little by little, by accident, carelessness, or treachery 0
- verb transitive leak to permit (water, air, light, radiation, etc.) to pass accidentally in or out; allow to leak 0
- verb transitive leak to allow (secret or confidential information) to become known 0
- noun leak an accidental hole or crack that lets something out or in 0
- noun leak any means of escape for something that ought not to be let out, lost, etc. 0
- noun leak the fact of leaking; leakage 0
- noun leak a disclosure of secret or confidential information; specif., an ostensibly accidental disclosure by a government official to the news media, actually intended to produce an effect 0
- noun leak a loss of electrical current through faulty insulation 0
- noun leak the point or path where this occurs 0
- noun leak the act of urinating 0