[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

leak \leak\ l=ek, n. akin to d. lek leaky, a leak, g. leck,
   icel. lekr leaky, dan. laek leaky, a leak, sw. laumck;
   cf. as. hlec full of cracks or leaky. cf. leak, v.
   1. 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. "one leak will sink
      a ship." --bunyan.
      1913 webster

   2. the entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack,
      fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the
      ship's pumps.
      1913 webster

   3. elec. a loss of electricity through imperfect
      insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   4. an act of urinating; -- used mostly in the phrase

   take a leak, i. e. to urinate. vulgar
      pjc

   5. 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.
      pjc

   to spring a leak, to open or crack so as to let in water;
      to begin to let in water; as, the ship sprung a leak.
      1913 webster
see also:
leak take a leak to spring a leak 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

leak \leak\, a.
   leaky. obs. --spenser.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

leak \leak\, v. i. imp.  p. p. leaked l=ekt; p. pr. 
   vb. n. leaking. akin to d. lekken, g. lecken, lechen,
   icel. leka, dan. laekke, sw. laumcka, as. leccan to wet,
   moisten. see leak, n.
   1. to let water or other fluid in or out through a hole,
      crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the
      boat leaks.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   to leak out, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to
      become public; as, the facts leaked out.
      1913 webster
see also:
leaked leaking leak to leak out 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

leak
     n 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" syn: wetting,
         making water, passing water
     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" syn: escape, leakage, outflow
     5: unauthorized especially deliberate disclosure of
        confidential information syn: news leak
     v 1: tell anonymously; "the news were leaked to the paper"
     2: be leaked; "the news leaked out despite his secrecy" syn: leak
        out
     3: enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure;
        "water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "gas
        leaked into the basement"
     4: have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or
        go out; "the container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks
        badly"
see also:
wetting making water passing water escape leakage outflow 
news leak leak out 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

207 moby thesaurus words for "leak":
   abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, babble, babbling, be indiscreet,
   be revealed, be unguarded, become known, betray,
   betray a confidence, betrayal, blab, blabber, blabbering, blabbing,
   blurt, blurt out, box canyon, breach, break, breakout, broaching,
   canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, clearing,
   cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come out, come to naught,
   come to nothing, communication leak, coulee, couloir, crack,
   cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dead giveaway, defile,
   deliverance, delivery, dell, dike, discharge, disclose, disclosure,
   dissipate, distill, distillation, ditch, divulgation, divulge,
   divulgement, divulgence, divulging, donga, draw, dribble, drip,
   dripping, drippings, drop, emergence, escape, escapism, evasion,
   evulgation, excavation, extravasate, extrication, exudation, exude,
   fault, fenestra, fissure, fistula, flaw, flight, flume, fontanel,
   foramen, fracture, freeing, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gat, getaway,
   give away, giveaway, go to pot, go to seed, go to waste, gorge,
   groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, incision,
   indiscretion, inform, inform on, inlet, interval, issuance, issue,
   jailbreak, joint, kloof, lacuna, laying open, leak away, leak out,
   leakage, leaking, let drop, let fall, let slip, letting out,
   liberation, make known, make public, moat, notch, nullah,
   obvious clue, ooze, oozing, opening, opening up, orifice, out,
   outlet, pass, passage, passageway, peach, pore, prisonbreak,
   puncture, rat, ravine, release, rent, rescue, reveal a secret,
   revelation, riddance, rift, rime, run to seed, run to waste,
   rupture, scissure, seam, seep, seepage, seeping, setting-free,
   sing, slit, slot, space, spill, spill the beans, split, squeal,
   stoma, stool, talk, tattle, tattle on, tear, tell on, tell secrets,
   tell tales, telltale, telltale sign, throwing open, transpire,
   trench, trickle, trill, uncorking, unstopping,
   unwitting disclosure, valley, vent, void, wadi, weep, yawn

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

leak n. with qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that
   occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are
   finished, so they effectively disappear leak out. this leads to
   eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. memory leak
   and fd leak have their own entries; one might also refer, to, say, a
   `window handle leak' in a window system.


see also:
memory leak fd leak 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

leak
     
         with a qualifier, one of a class of
        resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not
        freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they
        effectively disappear leak out.  this leads to eventual
        exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.
     
        one might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a window
        system.
     
        see memory leak, fd leak.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-04-18
     
     
see also:
window system memory leak fd leak jargon file 

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