leak

(Αγγλικός)

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. (especially, mildly, slang, vulgar) An act of urination.

Verb

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

Adj

Leaky.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/liːk/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: leken

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: *lecan

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: lekken

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: lechen

Συγγενές με Δανικά: lække

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: läcka

Συγγενές με Ισλανδικά: leka

Συγγενές με Παλαιά Αγγλικά: leċċan

Συγγενές με Αλβανικά: lag

In summary

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.

Έννοιες

διαρροή

διαρρέω

άνοιγμα

στάζω

τρύπα

οπή

αφήνω

κατηγορώ

εγκαταλείπω

καταδίδω

ξεφεύγω

ρωγμή

κατουρώ

Συνώνυμα

drip

leakage

ooze

seep

hole

🕳️

trickle

flow

escape

drop

run out

leak out

dribble

pour out

ooze out

reveal

denounce

snitch

crack

stream out

dripping

be leaky

spill

run

pour

aperture

seepage

bleed

🩸

outflow

leaking

divulge

flow out

exude

disclose

spring a leak

trickle down

gush forth

outleakage

wetting

vent

stream

sweat

😓

blurt

drain off

bleeding

🩸

drift away

leaky

flaw

fissure

gap

water

🚰

Μεταφράσεις

fuite

lecken

Leck

fuir

fuga

✈️

lek

falla

🕳️

fuga

crepa

perdere

fessura

perdita

filtrar

couler

colare