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Definition: Leaking |
LeakingAdjective1. (of ships and boats) permitting leakage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leaking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a leak in anything, is usually significant of loss and vexations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Slang | Verb. Source: When someone is 'leaking', they truly look as if blood is leaking out of them. Definition: Someone is 'leaking' when they're bleeding. Context: Usually as the result of a show of violence, someone's bleeding is an important happenstance. Social Source: Urban Drug Dealers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonym: LeakingSynonym: leaky (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: leakiest (building & civil engineering, transportation). |
Crosswords: Leaking |
| English words defined with "leaking": Aleak ♦ drippy ♦ oozing, oozy ♦ seeping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leaking": air infiltration, AUXILIARY-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ♦ Bulling the Barrel ♦ catch drain, COOLING-PIPE INSPECTOR, couper, curtain drain ♦ earth leakage protection, Emergency Removal Action ♦ GAS-LEAK TESTER, Groundwater ♦ HELICOPTER PILOT ♦ INSPECTOR, ALUMINUM BOAT, intercepting drain ♦ LEAK HUNTER ♦ Missed Detection ♦ Oil on Troubled Waters ♦ pipe inspector, Probability of Detection, pump-room operator ♦ runout ♦ SALVAGE INSPECTOR, SAND FILLER, silicatization process, specific conductance, submarine worker ♦ Tank, Thatch. (references) |
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Screenplays | We're leaking gas (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost) Look! Water is leaking from her eyes (Flash Gordon; writing credit: Michael Allin; Alex Raymond) Well boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing but we got one little budge on those Roosskies (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) I got so many lawyers lined up to see me today, you'd think I had tobacco leaking out of my breast implants (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Lyrics | Fix this hole in my heart leaking into my flesh (If I Wanted To; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) | |
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 | Hauled out for repairs at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, following a collision with USS Percival (DD-298) on the night of 31 January 1926. The original caption reads: "Close-up showing dent in her side as a result of the collision with USS Percival, Sunday night, 31 January 1926. The collision occurred between the two ships in Coronado Roads, California. The sharp prow of the Percival punctured the port forward oil tank of the William Jones, in addition to cutting three deep gashes in the hull just above the water line and cracking several frame plates. William Jones was placed on the marine ways at the Destroyer Base for repairs, when spattered from stem to stern with oil that poured out from the leaking fuel tank, she returned to the harbor. Percival, apparently seaworthy, was ordered to proceed to Panama with the Fleet.". Credit: NAVY. |  | Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Fairbanks in "G.O.P. promises" car leaking "ice water" get ready for race with Democratic counterparts, Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall in "Democratic perform. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Leaking through / Greene. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. M. LaBlanc straightening articles in corner of kitchen in present home. Note the waterstained walls caused by leaking roof. Morganza, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Leaking tanks. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pipes. Pipes leaking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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St. Jerome | An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In the wet hay of leaking barns babies were born to women who panted with pneumonia |
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Health | Urgency and leaking or dribbling. (references) | |
This seals the vessels and stops them from leaking. (references) | ||
In timed voiding, you fill in a chart of voiding and leaking. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | In June authorities announced Jiang would be tried for leaking state secrets. (references) |
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Mark Shields | Bob, Senator Richard Shelby didn't race to any conclusions. But boy, I'll tell you, he was tough on the FBI, accusing them of leaking and of being asleep at the switch. It was as tough an indictment of the bureau as I've heard recently. |
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| "Leaking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.94% of the time. "Leaking" is used about 266 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75.94% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.29% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.26% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.13% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 266 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "leaking": external leaking ♦ leaking out. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "leaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 漏 (Leaked, leaky). (various references) | |
Danish | vend utæt beholder med utætheden opad for at undgå udslip af gas i flydende gasart (turn leaking cylinder with the leak up to prevent escape of gas in liquid state), udsivet og spildt væske opsamles så vidt muligt i beholder,der kan lukkes (collect leaking and spilled liquid in sealable containers as far as possible). (various references) | |
Dutch | lekkende drukhouder met lek naar boven draaien;anders ontsnapt het gas in vloeibare toestand (turn leaking cylinder with the leak up to prevent escape of gas in liquid state), lek-en morsvloeistof,voor zover mogelijk,opvangen in afluitbare vaten (collect leaking and spilled liquid in sealable containers as far as possible). (various references) | |
Finnish | vuotava (leaky, running). (various references) | |
French | manque d'étanchéité (leaky), découlant. (various references) | |
German | auslaufend (outbound, petering). (various references) | |
Greek | περισυλλέξτε,όσο είναι δυνατό,το χυμένο υγρό και το υγρό που διαρρέει,μέσα σε δοχεία που να κλείνουν ερμητικά (collect leaking and spilled liquid in sealable containers as far as possible), τοποθετήστε τον κύλινδρο με το σημείο διαρροής προς τα πάνω για να αποφευχθεί η διαφυγή του αερίου σε υγρή μορφή (turn leaking cylinder with the leak up to prevent escape of gas in liquid state). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembocoran (divulging). (various references) | |
Italian | mancanza di tenuta (leaky, perviousness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "明り (light coming in or leaking through a window), 秘密漏洩 (leaking of a secret), 明りが漏れる (light is leaking in), ガスが漏れる (gas is leaking out), じろじろ見る (cool sensation from passing air, gradually, smoothly, sound of air leaking, to look hard at, to look up and down, to make refreshed, to make relieved, to scrutinize, to stare at, unhindered). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すーすー (cool sensation from passing air, sound of air leaking), ひみつろうせつ (leaking of a secret), まどあかり (light coming in or leaking through a window). (various references) | |
Korean | 샘 (Fountain, Trickling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eakinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falta de estanqueidade (leaky, perviousness). (various references) | |
Romanian | scurgere (course, discharge, drain, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, lapse, leakage, loss, March, overflow, passage, passing, running, trickling). (various references) | |
Russian | просачиваться сочащийся. (various references) | |
Spanish | falta de impermeabilización (leaky, perviousness). (various references) | |
Turkish | sızdırma (extraction, leaking out, wangle). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Leaking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eaking, Leacon, leakings, leibing, lekking, lerking, leskean, Leukon, yeuking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leaking" (pronounced lē"king) |
| 4 | -ē" k i ng | creaking, critiquing, eking, freaking, peaking, peeking, reeking, seeking, shrieking, sneaking, speaking, squeaking, streaking, tweaking, wreaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, pecking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, spiking, squawking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: linkage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: alkine, genial, laking, linage. | |
-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, alike, aline, angel, angle, anile, ankle, eking, elain, glean, ingle, inkle, kiang, liane, liang, ligan, liken, linga. | |
-3 letters: agin, akin, anil, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gien, gink, glen, glia, ilea, ilka, kail, kain, kale, kane, kiln, kina, kine, king, lain, lake, lane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-k-l-n" | |
+1 letter: fanglike, gnatlike, linkages, snaglike, weakling. | |
+2 letters: gavelkind, giantlike, lackering, lackeying, weaklings. | |
+3 letters: bechalking, becloaking, blackening, blanketing, gavelkinds, keelhaling, lovemaking, retackling, slackening, sneakingly. | |
+4 letters: blackenings, cakewalking, deadlocking, glucokinase, granitelike, keelhauling, lawbreaking, linebacking, lovemakings, nightwalker, overtalking, platemaking, racewalking, shellacking, skedaddling, steelmaking. | |
+5 letters: backpedaling, glucokinases, lawbreakings, linebackings, metalworking, nightwalkers, placekicking, platemakings, racewalkings, shellackings, sleepwalking, spacewalking, steelmakings. | |
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