Leak vs. Leakage
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.
Leakagenoun
an act of leaking, or something that leaks
Leakagenoun
the amount lost due to a leak
Leakagenoun
an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation
Leakagenoun
loss of retail stock, especially due to theft
Leakagenoun
(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
Leakagenoun
A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
Leakagenoun
An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
Leakagenoun
A leak{3}; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted.
Leakagenoun
the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container;
