leak

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
6. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
7. (slang) An act of urination.

Verb

1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
4. To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
5. To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
6. (slang) To urinate.
7. (slang) To bleed.

Adj

Leaky.

Konzepte

lecken

Leck

angeben

anschwärzen

anzeigen

denunzieren

hinterbringen

Flucht

eine Anzeige wegen … machen

entweichen

ausfließen

ausströmen

auslaufen

undichte Stelle

durchlassen

leaken

tropfen

durchsickern

Anklage erheben gegen

Beschuldigen sich

anklagen

beschuldigen

bezichtigen

verklagen

Entweichen

Verschwinden

Weltflucht

entäußern

ergeben

fortgeben

fortlassen

hingeben

liefern

preisgeben

unterlassen

weggeben

überlassen

Ausfahrt

Ausgang

Auslass

ausrinnen

austreten

durchkommen

durchsickern lassen

Loch

Undichtigkeit

leck

sickern

Stelle

undicht

laufen

rinnen

pissen

undicht sein

Einschnitt

Felsspalt

Felsspalte

Kluft

Riss

Spalt

Spalte

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/liːk/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English *lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.