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LEAKED

Definition: LEAKED

LEAKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Leak

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LEAKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)



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Crosswords: LEAKED

English words defined with "LEAKED": leak, leak outTo leak outunreleased. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LEAKED": Gas ScavengersHalloween Documents. (references)

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Use in Literature: LEAKED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In the latitude of the Balearic Isles, her planking had loosened and opened, and as there was in those days no copper sheathing, the ship had leaked.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

There we sat together under that part of the roof which leaked the least, while it showered and thundered without.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LEAKED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

If air continues to leak into the chest cavity, however, it may be necessary to re-expand the collapsed portion of the lung by removing the air that has leaked into the chest cavity. (references)

You then won't feel the need to use the bathroom until stool has leaked out. Nerve damage can be caused by childbirth, a long-term habit of straining to pass stool, stroke, and diseases that affect the nerves, such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis. (references)

Economic History

China

One month after the opening of the Dalian airport (which used a tiny fraction of imports), the roof leaked during a mild rain. (references)

Venezuela

There are no indications that under the Chavez government corruption has diminished in bodies such as the tax authority and customs, and indeed a report leaked from the controller general's office suggests widespread corruption in the Chavez-created military-run civic action known as Plan Bolívar 2000. (references)

Human Rights

Macedonia

In August observers alleged that the Government wiretapped telephone conversations between Branko Crvenkovski of the Social Democratic Union (SDSM) and Arben Xhaferi of the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), and leaked the conversation to a television station that reported that the two were engaged in a conspiracy against national interests. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: LEAKED

SpeakerPhrase(s)

John Walsh

Well, that was the big question in the sniper case. And Chief Moose was absolutely furious that something leaked out when he was trying to close in on the sniper. There is real a fine line.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LEAKED

"LEAKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 47.67% of the time. "LEAKED" is used about 365 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)47.67%17423,577
Lexical Verb (past tense)30.96%11330,464
Adjective (general or positive)20.27%7438,813
Noun (proper)0.82%3202,518
Noun (common)0.27%1339,140
                    Total100.00%365N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LEAKED

Language Translations for "LEAKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

æ¼ (leaking, leaky). (various references)

   

French

  

fuirent, fuie, fui, découlai, découlé, découlâmes. (various references)

   

German

  

leckte (licked), ausgelaufen. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kececer (leaked out, scattered about), betik (be announced, leaked out). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

새ëŠ" (Trickled). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakedlay

   

Russian 

  

проÑачиватьÑÑ (infiltrate, infiltrating, leak, percolate, seep, silt through, transpire). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LEAKED

Misspellings

"LEAKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elake, Eliakim, laked, leace, leaker, Leeke, Lefkada, leied, Lemayev, loake, teaked. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LEAKED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LEAKED" (pronounced lē"kt)
3-ē" k tcheeked, creaked, critiqued, eked, freaked, peaked, peeked, piqued, shrieked, sneaked, squeaked, streaked, tweaked, wreaked.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LEAKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-k-l"

-1 letter: laked.

-2 letters: akee, alee, dale, deal, deke, dele, eked, kale, keel, lade, lake, lead, leak, leek, leke.

-3 letters: ale, dak, dal, dee, del, eel, eke, eld, elk, kae, kea, lad, lea, led, lee, lek.

-4 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, ka, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-k-l"
 

+2 letters: beadlike, lackered, lackeyed, lakeside.

 

+3 letters: adobelike, bechalked, becloaked, blackened, bladelike, blanketed, deathlike, dekaliter, dreamlike, keelhaled, kneadable, lakesides, retackled, sheldrake, skedaddle, slackened.

 

+4 letters: cakewalked, daggerlike, deadlocked, dekaliters, keelhauled, ladderlike, lunkheaded, overtalked, sheldrakes, shellacked, skedaddled, skedaddler, skedaddles, threadlike.

 

+5 letters: acknowledge, backpedaled, bladderlike, chucklehead, deerstalker, dislikeable, doublespeak, frankpledge, griddlecake, knucklehead, loudspeaker, placekicked, skedaddlers, sleepwalked, spacewalked, stakeholder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LEAKED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 41 4B 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    .-    -.-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000001 01001011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0041 004B 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

463935453938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Spoken
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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