Seepage vs. Leak

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Seepagenoun

The process by which something, especially a liquid, leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping. Also used figuratively: the process of diffusing.

Seepagenoun

Water that has seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Seepagenoun

Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Seepagenoun

The act or process of seeping; percolation.

Seepagenoun

a fluid that seeps out of a container; as, seepage from a reservoir.

Seepagenoun

the process of seeping

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.

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