| Noun | 1. | leak - an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak" |
| 2. | leak - soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | |
| 3. | leak - a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" | |
| 4. | leak - the unwanted 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" | |
| 5. | leak - unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information Synonyms: news leak | |
| Verb | 1. | leak - tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper" |
| 2. | leak - be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" Synonyms: leak out | |
| 3. | leak - 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" | |
| 4. | leak - have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly" |
| (programming) | 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. |
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