Leak

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “a leak in a roof”

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

   “The leak gained on the ship's pumps.”

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

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

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

   “[…] so even if he was the leak, we would never know.”

5. isim A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
6. isim The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

   “resource leak”

7. isim An act of urination.

   “I have to take a leak.”

8. fiil To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

   “The wells are believed to have been leaking oil for decades, long after the operating company ceased to exist.”

9. fiil (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.

   “The faucet has been leaking since last month.”

10. fiil To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

    “Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.”

11. fiil To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.

    “A target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer.”

12. fiil To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.

    “England were leaking penalties as Scotland played with pace and variety. Russell was starting to find his range and when he threaded through a grubber to Sean Maitland the winger did well to gather and keep the ball in play. Unfortunately, his pass inside just eluded Russell.”

13. fiil To urinate.

    “I had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.”

14. fiil To bleed.

    “He shanked him, now he's leaking.”

15. sıfat Leaky.

    “Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].”

16. özel isim A surname.