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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
Verbi
- (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
- (slang, US) To bleed.
Adjektiivi
- (obsolete) Leaky.
Esimerkit
- a leak in a roof
- a leak in a boat
- a leak in a gas pipe
- The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
- The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
- The press must have learned about the plan through a leak.
- resource leak
- memory leak
- I have to take a leak.
- The faucet has been leaking since last month.
- Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
- Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].
- The faucet is leaking.
- The president asked a member of his staff to leak the information to the press.
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