English Dictionary

leak

/liːk/

noun

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.

There is a leak in the roof.

意味（1）

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

a leak in a roof

意味（2）

The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

The leak gained on the ship's pumps.

意味（3）

A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.

The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.

意味（4）

The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

The press must have learned about the plan through a leak.

意味（5）

A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.

意味（6）

(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

resource leak

意味（7）

(vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.

I have to take a leak.

意味（8）

(slang, US) To bleed.

He shanked him, now he's leaking.