Definition of leak

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Leak (n.) 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..

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Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..
Tight :: Tight (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight..
Gasoscope :: Gasoscope (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house..
Aleak :: Aleak (adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay..
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
Ooze :: Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out..
Leaky :: Leaky (superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
Bowge :: Bowge (v. t.) To cause to leak.
Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.
Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..
Leaking :: Leaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lea.
Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering..
Leakage :: Leakage (n.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking..
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage..
Lade :: Lade (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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