leak : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: leak	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for leak
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leak n an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak" soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" Synonym(s): leak, wetting, making water, passing water the 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" Synonym(s): escape, leak, leakage, outflow unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information Synonym(s): leak, news leak v tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper" be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" Synonym(s): leak, leak out 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" have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leak \Leak\, n. [Akin to D. lek leaky, a leak, G. leck, Icel. lekr leaky, Dan. l[91]k leaky, a leak, Sw. l[84]ck; 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. [bd]One leak will sink a ship.[b8] --Bunyan. 2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leak \Leak\, a. Leaky. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leak \Leak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaking}.] [Akin to D. lekken, G. lecken, lechen, Icel. leka, Dan. l[91]kke, Sw. l[84]cka, 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. 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. {To leak out}, to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leak \Leak\, n. (Elec.) A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)