Leak

Definition: Leak

Leak

Noun

1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak".

2. Soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi.

3. A euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak".

4. The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak".

5. Unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information.

Verb

1. Tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper".

2. Be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy".

3. Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack".

4. Have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "leak" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

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Mining

Multilingual Slang

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

Synonyms: Leak

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Disclosure

Be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; (be visible); become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover; itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.

Egress

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

Imperfection

Verb: be imperfect; Adjective: have a defect; Noun: lie under a disadvantage; spring a leak.

Interval

Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.

Waste

Leak; (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

Crosswords: Leak

We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a minute to lock it down (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Sir, my pilot is taking a leak. (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool)

I'm just gonna go take a leak, if it's okay with you. (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe)

If that's where the leak is, we can isolate it. We can save what's left in the tanks and we can run on the good cell (Apollo 13; writing credit: Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger)

! Boy, the last time there was a leak like this, Noah built hisself a boat (Absence of Malice; writing credit: Kurt Luedtke)

But the press let the story leak (Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard; performing artist: Paul Simon)

The Leak in the Dike (1965)

Doctoring a Leak (1916)

Leak (1998)

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

Books

• A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life (reference)

• Industrial Gaseoous Leak Detection Manual (reference)

• Leak Detection for Underground Storage Tanks (Stp, 1161) (reference)

• Leak Prevention and Corrective Action Technology for Underground Storage Tanks (reference)

• The Terrible Leak (Creative Short Stories Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Red Dwarf - Series 2, Byte 2: Stasis Leak (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Let It Leak (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Nissan 1.1-Quart Stainless Steel Vacuum Insulated Leak Proof Bottle with Strap (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

In background retinopathy, a slight deterioration in the small blood vessels of the retina, portions of the vessels may swell and leak fluid into the surrounding retinal tissue. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Interior of the wet slips, with USS Lardner (Destroyer # 286, builder's Hull # 366) fitting out at right. Further to the right, with smokestacks barely visible behind the building framework, is USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367), which is also fitting out. Note barrels, mountings, shields and base rings for 4"/50 guns, in the foreground, and warning signs. The largest of the latter, at right, forbids smoking due to the presence of fuel oil. Smaller signs state: "Coal Shortage" "Every leak in air lines Means Waste of Coal". Some of the material present is marked for Hull 370 (USS Dale, Destroyer # 290). Photograph probably taken circa 18 November 1919. Credit: NAVY.

Time to stop that leak. Credit: Library of Congress.

Must be a leak somewhere. Credit: Library of Congress.

"This chicken house we're standing against is the only house here that doesn't leak. It's so low my pop can fix the roof." Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers' colony at Hudson, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Filling radiator of migrant car with water. This is done frequently, as these radiators usually leak. Near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

International Nickel Co. at the Pentagon. Water leak on plaster at the Pentagon. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Meanwhile, after rumours and speeches, after written indications, material facts began to leak out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Or stool may leak from the rectum unexpectedly. (references)

In these cases, the bladder can overfill and leak urine. (references)

But kidneys with damaged filters may let protein leak into the urine. (references)

Business

Opportunities exist for leak detection and repair equipment. (references)

Economic History

Azerbaijan

Both BTC and a planned gas export pipeline will require Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, including leak detection, operations control centers, pump stations, mainline block valves and tank farms. (references)

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

Expressions using "leak": air leak ♦ begin to leak ♦ Capillary Leak Syndrome ♦ core leak ♦ fd leak ♦ file descriptor leak ♦ fluoroscopic leak detection ♦ fluoroscopic leak test ♦ gas leak ♦ grid leak ♦ leak away ♦ leak detection ♦ leak detector ♦ leak fungus ♦ leak in ♦ leak information ♦ leak into ♦ leak out ♦ leak rate determination test ♦ leak test ♦ leak through ♦ leak to ♦ memory leak ♦ security leak ♦ space leak ♦ spring a leak ♦ stop a leak ♦ take a leak ♦ To leak out ♦ To spring a leak. Additional references.

Beginning with "leak": leak-detection, leak-fix, leak-free, leak-prone, leak-proof, leak-proofed, leak-sealants, leak-tight.

Ending with "leak": anti-leak, pump-leak.

Albanian

vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), shfryrje (blow, grumble), shfryj (blast, blow, bluster, decompress, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, let off steam, natter, puff, vituperate, whiffle, wreak), rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, effusion, escape, flow, flowing, flux, leakage, ooze, outflow), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), plasë (chink, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, rent, rift), pikoj (blob, dapple, distil, distill, dribble, drip, drizzle, drop, ooze, trickle), pikim (dribble, drip, exudation, leakage, ooze), pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, full stop, globule, installation, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot, touch), përhapet, nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage, waste), del në shesh (come to light, the murder is out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موضع التسريب, ‏نطح (bunt, butt, gore, horn, ram, seep), ‏تسرب (get home, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, leakage, ooze, seep, seepage), ‏سرب (bevy, drift, flock, group, herd, infiltrate, swarm), ‏إرتشاح (drain, infiltration, leakage), ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle), ‏دلف (draggle, dripping, leakage, seepage, spring a leak, toddle, trickle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пукнатина (break, chap, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gash, rift, shake, split, spring), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter), изпускане (emission, exhaustion, expulsion, leakage, omission, outlet, release), изтичам (determine, escape, expire, finish, issue, outflow, run, run off, run out, sluice, wear through), изтичане (discharge, effluence, efflux, effusion, escape, expiration, expiry, flow, fluxion, issuance, issue, leakage, outflow, outgo, outlet, seepage, termination), прецеждам се (percolate), пропускам вода (bilge, make water), дупка (cavity, chamber, delve, dump, earth, gap, hole, hutch, mesh, opening, perforation, pit, pore, rent, scoop, tear, vent), просмуквам се (ooze, permeate, pervade, seep, sink in, strike, transude), утечка (leakage, ullage), загуба (decrement, disadvantage, forfeiture, leakage, loss, prejudice, shock, wastage, waste), капя (distil, dribble, drip, drop, drop in, gutter, ooze, run, seep, weep), тека (course, devolve, effuse, flow, flux, lapse, roll, roll by, run, run on, set, sluice), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, cracking, fissure, flaw, rent, rift, shake, slash, slit, slot), разкривам се (be found out, greet), разчувам се (ooze), пролука (aperture, chink, crack, cranny, flaw, gap, rent, slot). (various references)

Chinese 

會漏 , 泄露 (divulge), 漏洞 (hole, loophole), 浅漏. (various references)

Czech

unikat (discharge, issue), téci (flow, run, stream), skulina (chink, cranny, gap, loophole, peephole, slit), prozradit (betray, disclose, divulge, give away, reveal), prosakovat (infiltrate, ooze, percolate), propouštìt vodu, kapat (dribble, drip, drop, trickle), díra (backwater, burrow, gap, hole, joint, pit, puncture, rip, split, tear, vent), únik (discharge, elusion, escape, getaway, issue, scape), štìrbina (chink, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, slit, slot). (various references)

Danish

loebe ud (run, run-out), laekage (leakage), laek, lækage (feed, feeder, leakage, small), utaethed (discontinuity, porosity, unsoundness). (various references)

Dutch

loper (courier), lekkage (leakage), lek (burst, cut, decay, leakage, lek, puncture), doorbraak (breakout, breakthrough, burn-through, run, run-out). (various references)

Farsi 

فاش کردن یاشدن , نفوذکردن (Infiltrate, Percolate, Permeate, Pervade, Transpire), چکه (Drip, Drop, Leakage, Seep, Seepage, Sprinkle, Trickle), نشت (Leakage), تراوش کردن (Bilge, Exude, Infiltrate, Ooze, Percolate, Secrete, Seep), تراوش (Gush, Leakage), سوراخ (Bore, Hole, Mesh, Orifice, Outage, Overture, Peck, Pigenhole, Puncture), رخنه (Breach, Chink, Crack, Gap, Influx). (various references)

Finnish

vuoto (bleeding, discharge, leakage), vuotaa (be leaky, flow, run). (various references)

French

fuite (leakage). (various references)

German

leck (leakage, leaky, seepage), lecken (lap, leakages, leaking, lick, licking, sleek, taste), entweichen (avoid, elude, escape, evade, run away, to escape), auslaufen (be discontinued, come to a stop, discharge, drain, ease off, empty, escape, leak out, leakage, put out, run, run out, rundown, sail, slow down). (various references)

Greek 

διαρροή (leakage, leakiness, ooze, seepage), διαρρέω (bilge, ooze, seep). (various references)

Hebrew 

להדליף, לדלוף (drip, ooze, trickle), לנזול (drip, flow), הדלפה (leakage), דליפה (dripping, leakage, oozing, seepage, trickling), דלף (leakage), נזילה (flow, leakage). (various references)

Hungarian

lék. (various references)

Indonesian

merembesi (filter through something, ooze out), merembes (infiltrate, ooze out, permeate, squish), kebocoran (leakage, puncture), bocoran (leakage), bocor (bleed, orinate). (various references)

Italian

falla (leakage), perdita (bereavement, blackout, breakdown, damage, deprivation, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, sortie, toll, waste), fuga (break, breakaway, escape, flight, fugue, get away, outrush, run, scape, sprint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ラ欄 (league, leaguer, leak detector, leek, legal, radio listings), 漏り (leakage), 出口　 (exit, gateway, outlet, vent, way out), 出口 (exit, gateway, outlet, vent, way out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リーク (leek), でぐち (exit, gateway, outlet, vent, way out), もり (baby-sitting, forest, harpoon, helping, lance, leakage, nursemaid, serving). (various references)

Korean 

누출. (various references)

Manx

towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, hollow, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent, vent-hole, water supply), lhiggey stiagh (admission, admit, initiate, initiation, leakage), lhiggey magh (allocation, allocation work, assignation, discharge, emit, leakage, let out, pay out, rap out, utterance, veer, vent, venting), jannoo ushtey (take in, take in of boat), faarney (drip, dripping, drop, Ferns, get in, leakage), faarn, drigey (distil, distillation, drip, drop). (various references)

Norwegian

lekkasje (leakage), lekk. (various references)

Pig Latin

eaklay.(various references)

Portuguese

rombo (diamond, lozenge, obtuse, pointless, rhomb, rhombus). (various references)

Romanian

transpira (exude, filter, melt, perspire, slip out, sweat, transpire), spãrturã (blank, breach, break, chasm, cranny, flaw, gap, rent), scãpa (acquit, break free, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, let slip, loose, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, pass up, purge, put back, release, relieve, rescue, rid, save, slip), gaurã de apã, fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), fi neetanş, derivaţie (derivation, shunt, tap), şuntare (leakage). (various references)

Russian 

утечь (escape), утечка информации, утечка (efflux, escape, leakage, outage, seepage, spillage, ullage, wastage), течь (flow, leakage, run, seep, stream), неплотное место, просочиться (penetrate), просачиваться (infiltrate, infiltrating, leaked, percolate, seep, silt through, transpire), пропускать воду. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pukotina (cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, rent, seam), propuštati (admit, pretermit), prokišnjavati, naprslina (crack, rift, split), kapati (drip), curiti (dribble, drip, ooze, seep, trickle, water), cureti (trickle), curenje (drip, leakage, ooze, seepage, trickle). (various references)

Spanish

fuga (elopement, escape, fugue, getaway, jailbreak, leakage, outflow), pérdida (bereavement, drain, failure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, outflow, wastage, waste), filtración (filtering, filtration, leakage, percolation, seepage). (various references)

Swedish

läcka (escape, leakage, seep), otäthet. (various references)

Thai

การหลบหนี (getaway), รอยรั่ว, รั่ว (leaky), ยอมให้น้ำรั่วผ่านได้. (various references)

Turkish

sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, run out, seep, transpire, transude, trickle, weep), sızma (efflux, infiltration, leakage, ooze, oozing, outflow, percolation, permeation), sızdırmak (chisel, drag out, drip, effuse, exude, leak out, ooze, percolate, suck, take in, transpire, wheedle smth. out of smb., work), sızıntı yapmak, sızıntı (creep, creepage, efflux, emanation, escape, leakage, ooze, outflow, runaway, seepage), kaçak yapmak (escape, ooze out), kaçak (absconder, contraband, deserter, escape, escapee, fugitive, furtive, illegal, leakage, on the lam, run, runaway, smuggled), akmak (bleed, course, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, run out, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up). (various references)

Turkmen 

syrykmak (stream), dцkmek (spill). (various references)

Ukrainian

теча (spring), витік (leakage, outage, outfall, outflow), просочуватися (filter, funnel, infiltrate, leak in, leak out, ooze, percolate, seep, soak, soak through, transpire), протікати (flow, spring a leak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lỗ thủng (hole, ventage), lỗ rò, điều bí mật bị lộ. (various references)

Welsh

gollwng (absolve, broach, discharge, dismiss, drop, let go, loose). (various references)

effluo. (various references)

leken. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "leak": leakage, leakages, leaked, leaker, leakers, leakier, leakiest, leakily, leakiness, leakinesses, leaking, leakless, leakproof, leaks, leaky. (additional references)

Words ending with "leak": antileak, bleak. (additional references)

Words containing "leak": bleaker, bleakest, bleakish, bleakly, bleakness, bleaknesses, bleaks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Leak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alak, eak, elake, elal, elik, elka, feak, geak, Gleik, ilake, ilako, lak, Laka, leab, leac, leacj, leack, leag, leah, leai, Leask, leau, leav, Lebak, leea, Leeke, leeki, leic, leik, lek, Lekh, lena, lenk, lepak, lerk, lesk, Leski, leuk, leuu, levak, lexal, lezal, Lhea, loak, loake, loeak, Loek, lojack, lpac, lrac, Lysak, sleak, veak, yeak, zeak. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: kale, lake.

-1 letter: ale, elk, kae, kea, lea, lek.

-2 letters: ae, al, el, ka, la.

+1 letter: akela, alike, ankle, bleak, flake, kales, laked, laker, lakes, latke, leaks, leaky, slake.

+2 letters: akelas, alkane, alkene, alkies, alkine, alkyne, alsike, ankled, ankles, anklet, auklet, axlike, balked, balker, bleaks, cackle, calked, calker, darkle, flaked, flaker, flakes, flakey, hackle, kayles, keblah, knawel, lacked, lacker, lackey, lakers, lakier, lanker, larked, larker, latkes, leaked, leaker, lekvar, mackle, rackle, rankle, slaked, slaker, slakes, splake, tackle, talked, talker, talkie, vakeel, walked, walker, weakly.