leak in or out
1leak — leak1 S3 [li:k] v [Date: 1400 1500; : Old Norse; Origin: leka] 1.) [I and T] if a container, pipe, roof etc leaks, or if it leaks gas, liquid etc, there is a small hole or crack in it that lets gas or liquid flow through ▪ The roof is leaking in… …
2leak — /lik / (say leek) noun 1. an unintended hole, crack, or the like by which fluid, gas, etc., enters or escapes. 2. any avenue or means of unintended entrance or escape, or the entrance or escape itself. 3. Electricity a point where current escapes …
3leak — I. n. 1. Fissure (letting a liquid in or out), chink, crevice, hole. 2. Leaking, leakage, percolation. II. v. a. 1. Percolate, leak in or out, ooze, pass slowly. 2. Let in (water or other liquid), take water, etc …
4leak — [lēk] vi. [ME leken < ON leka, to drip < IE base * leg , to drip, trickle, LACK, OIr legaim, (I) dissolve, Welsh llaith, damp] 1. to let a fluid substance out or in accidentally [the boats leaks] 2. to enter, or escape accidentally from, an …
5Leak — Leak, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaked} (l[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaking}.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen, Icel. leka, Dan. l[ae]kke, Sw. l[ a]cka, AS. leccan to wet, moisten. See {Leak}, n.] 1. To let water or other fluid in or out through …
6leak|age — «LEE kihj», noun. 1. the act of leaking; entrance or escape by a leak: »The continuing leakage was the result of a long crack in the pipe. 2. that which leaks in or out: »the privilege of battening on…the leakage of the tap room (Washington… …
7leak out — {v. phr.} To become known; escape. * /The famous beauty queen tried to keep her marriage a secret, but news of it soon leaked out./ …
8leak out — {v. phr.} To become known; escape. * /The famous beauty queen tried to keep her marriage a secret, but news of it soon leaked out./ …
9leak — [n] opening; seepage through opening aperture, chink, crack, crevice, decrease, destruction, detriment, drip, drop, escape, expenditure, exposure, fissure, flow, hole, leakage, leaking, loss, outgoing, percolation, pit, puncture, short circuit,… …
10leak — verb. The transitive meaning ‘to disclose (secret information) intentionally’ is, apart from an isolated example of 1859, a 20c use, although the practice is doubtless a lot older. It is related to, if not a development of, the phrasal verb to… …
