Meaning of leak in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

  Example: a leak in a boat

• The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

  Example: The babies' diapers had big leaks.

• A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.

  Example: The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.

• The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

  Example: The press must have learned about the plan through a leak.

• A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.

• The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

  Example: memory leak

• (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.

  Example: I have to take a leak.

verb

• To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

  Example: The faucet has been leaking since last month.

• (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.

  Example: No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.

• To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

  Example: Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.

adjective

• Leaky.