Leak vs. Drain
Leaknoun
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
Leaknoun
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
Leaknoun
A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
Leaknoun
The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
Leaknoun
A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
Leaknoun
(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
Leaknoun
An act of urination.
Leakverb
(ambitransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
Leakverb
(intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
Leakverb
(ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
Leakadjective
(obsolete) Leaky.
Leaknoun
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.
Leaknoun
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
Leaknoun
A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
Leaknoun
an act of urinating; - used mostly in the phrase take a leak, i. e. to urinate.
Leaknoun
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.
Leakadjective
Leaky.
Leakverb
To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
Leakverb
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.
Leaknoun
an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape;
Leaknoun
soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
Leaknoun
a euphemism for urination;
Leaknoun
the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container;
Leaknoun
unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
Leakverb
tell anonymously;
Leakverb
be leaked;
Leakverb
enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure;
Leakverb
have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out;
Leak
A leak is a way (usually an opening) for fluid to escape a container or fluid-containing system, such as a tank or a ship's hull, through which the contents of the container can escape or outside matter can enter the container. Leaks are usually unintended and therefore undesired.
Drainnoun
A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole UK
Drainnoun
An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
Drainnoun
Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
Drainnoun
(vulgar) An act of urination.
Drainnoun
(electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Drainnoun
(pinball) An outhole.
Drainnoun
A drink.
Drainverb
(intransitive) To lose liquid.
Drainverb
(intransitive) To flow gradually.
Drainverb
To cause liquid to flow out of.
Drainverb
To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
Drainverb
(transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
Drainverb
(transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
Drainverb
To filter.
Drainverb
To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
Drainverb
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Drainverb
To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
Drainverb
To filter.
Drainverb
To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
Drainverb
To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
Drainnoun
The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country; the project is a drain on resources.
Drainnoun
That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
Drainnoun
The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
Drainnoun
emptying accomplished by draining
Drainnoun
tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
Drainnoun
a pipe through which liquid is carried away
Drainnoun
a gradual depletion of energy or resources;
Drainverb
flow off gradually;
Drainverb
deplete of resources;
Drainverb
empty of liquid; drain the liquid from;
Drainverb
make weak;
