leaked
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noun
1.
an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
2.
an act or instance of leaking.
3.
any means of unintended entrance or escape.
4.
Electricity. the loss of current from a conductor, usually resulting from poor insulation.
5.
a disclosure of secret, especially official, information, as to the news media, by an unnamed source.
verb (used without object)
6.
to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack: The boat leaks.
7.
to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light: gas leaking from a pipe.
8.
to become known unintentionally (usually followed by out ): The news leaked out.
9.
to disclose secret, especially official, information anonymously, as to the news media: The official revealed that he had leaked to the press in the hope of saving his own reputation.
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verb (used with object)
Idioms 10.
to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape: This camera leaks light.
11.
to allow to become known, as information given out covertly: to leak the news of the ambassador's visit.
12.
take a leak, Slang: Vulgar. to urinate.
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leak (liːk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a crack, hole, etc, that allows the accidental escape or entrance of fluid, light, etc |
| b. such escaping or entering fluid, light, etc | |
| 2. | spring a leak to develop a leak |
| 3. | something resembling this in effect: a leak in the defence system |
| 4. | the loss of current from an electrical conductor because of faulty insulation, etc |
| 5. | a disclosure, often intentional, of secret information |
| 6. | the act or an instance of leaking |
| 7. | See urinate a slang word for urination |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 8. | to enter or escape or allow to enter or escape through a crack, hole, etc |
| 9. | to disclose (secret information), often intentionally, or (of secret information) to be disclosed |
| 10. | (intr) a slang word for urinate |
| [C15: from Scandinavian; compare Old Norse leka to drip] | |
| 'leaker | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
leak
"to let water in or out" [Johnson], 1420, from M.Du. leken "to drip, to leak," or from O.N. leka, cognate of O.E. leccan "to moisten" (which did not survive into M.E.), all from P.Gmc. *lek- "deficiency" (cf. O.H.G. lecchen "to become dry," Ger. lechzen "to be parched with thirst"). The noun is from
1487. The figurative meaning "come to be known in spite of efforts at concealment" dates from at least 1832; transitive sense first recorded 1859; the noun in this sense dates from 1950. Noun sense of "act of urination" is from 1934 (first attested in "Tropic of Cancer"); but the verb meaning "to piss" is from 1596.
"Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney." ["I Hen. IV," II.i.22]
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Slang Dictionary
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.
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The wagon mound was a ship which leaked oil creating a slick in part of the harbour.
This was illegal and the story was leaked by the age newspaper.
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