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leak English

Meaning leak meaning

What does leak mean?
Definitions in simple English

leak Noun

— A hole in a tube. Usually used for gas tubes and water pipes. Quick! Get a plumber! I have found a leak in this pipe.

leak Verb

— An action when someone reveals a secret to the public. Don't tell him about this. He will leak it out.

leak

— verb tell anonymously The news were leaked to the paper — noun an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape one of the tires developed a leak — noun a euphemism for urination he had to take a leak — verb have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out The container leaked gasoline the roof leaks badly — noun soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi — noun unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information — verb (= leak out) be leaked The news leaked out despite his secrecy — verb 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 — noun (= escape) 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

Synonyms leak synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as leak?

leak English » English

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Topics leak topics

What do people use leak to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Plumber
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Person Body functions

Urinate, urine

Conjugation leak conjugation

How do you conjugate leak?

leak · verb

Examples leak examples

How do I use leak in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There's a small leak in the roof that needs fixing.
Tom took a leak behind the barn.
The rain was dripping through a leak in the roof.
The explosion may have been caused by a gas leak.
There is a leak in the roof.
There's a leak in the roof.
Tom spent all day trying to fix the leak in the roof.
Don't let this information leak out.
Plug up that leak!
I'll ask the super to see about the leak in the front hallway.
The leak needs to be stopped immediately.
A morning erection: Will it last only until I take a leak?
After only a year her breast implants started to leak and she had to have them removed.
An oil leak was contained by a beaver dam in Alberta.
I have to take a leak.
Here's the leak.
I can seal the leak.
I think we have a gas leak.

Movie subtitles

Plans are no good when they leak ahead of time and I've seen some leaks in high places.
Or maybe there is a leak somewhere.
Won't leak when it rains.
He'll be back tonight if his hat don't leak.
Men, I don't want a word to leak out about this incredible incident.
Very good, sir. - Mind the leak, sir.
Must be a leak around here.
The tanks'll leak some at first. until the boards begin to swell and close the seams.
Leak in forward torpedo room.
There's a bad leak down here, captain.
There's a leak in the torpedo room.
It doesn't leak, does it?
There's been a leak, and the newspapers.
Put the aft end down to the leak.
I barely have time to take a leak!
Well, uh. the news didn't leak out till after we left.
I don't want it to leak.
Say, have you got a slow leak?
Maybe there's a leak somewhere.
About this leak, I think the word is, if you've a notion in your mind, Harry, don't be bashful.
Supposing there is a leak. And supposing it happens before the goods get to the inn, do you follow me?
There's your leak. Not true.
This has got a floor. Won't leak when it rains.
Watson, there's a leak.
A leak?
There's a water leak.
All right, leak some stories. Stir up anti-Duke Red sentiment then we will have him arrested.
It won't leak when it rains.
I told you the roof had a leak.
I didn't wanna worry you when we were in the air, but we have a bad oil leak.
I couldn't know what your profession is, but I'm not a bricklayer either, but the roof doesn't leak over my bed.
You sprung a leak?
Always the danger of a leak and no way of telling it.
Put the aft end under the leak. Hands up with the hoist.
He better get that trunk out of there before it starts to leak.
How's the leak?
Don't let anything leak to the newspapers.

News and current affairs

Indeed, just as BP was being hit with new criminal penalties, ExxonMobil announced yet another pipeline leak in the Niger Delta.
Citizens should be able more easily to leak information, pitch stories, and send leads to mainstream investigative reporters.
Today its problems look, as the Brookings Institution economist Peter Orszag says, much more like the equivalent of a slow tire leak: you have to fix it eventually, but it isn't very hard to do and repair it isn't terribly urgent.
If Social Security is a slow tire leak, then the post-2020 General Fund is an urgent brake job, Medicare and Medicaid are a melted transmission, and the budget deficit is the equivalent of having just crashed into a tree.
One can see why Uribe would threaten to leak news about the negotiations, as well as why Santos would try to preempt the leaks by going public and having them take place in the open (the talks will begin in Oslo, but will be pursued in Havana).
Within weeks, a press leak revealed that the US had access to North Korean networks.
Central banks are currently attempting to plug one leak as the next appears.
More precisely, the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers and the troika continued to leak to the global media that the Greek authorities had no credible, innovative proposals on offer - their standard refrain.
Moreover, there are genuine fears that rogue elements in a divided Iranian government might leak weapons technology to terrorist groups.
But nothing can be both leak-proof and porous, and ITER is not designed to study this contradiction.
Unless governments build leak-proof barriers around their countries - and the costs would likely be prohibitive - an implicit world market would be re-established.
There are possible risks when messing around with fundamental matter, but in this case, the shutdown was due to a mundane gas leak.
There was a serious danger that the contents of the nuclear reactor would seep into the soil, and then leak into the Dnepr river, thus endangering the population of Kiev and other cities along the riverbanks.
So the Bush administration's leak of her identity ended not just her career, but also a sensitive program that had kept us all safe.
If the boat springs a leak, everyone sinks.
This might work, but the first wall of the blanket will need to be not only leak-proof and porous, but also sufficiently permeable to neutrons, which have to hit the lithium atoms beyond it.
Alas, as a recent leak of Palestinian official papers demonstrates, this is not the case.
The recent leak from Britain's Ministry of Defense of a discussion paper on troop withdrawal highlights this desire.
In government, any leak is, by definition, embarrassing to someone, somewhere in the system.

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