leak

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

fuga

filtrar

escape

denunciar

delatar

filtración

gotear

salirse

hacer agua

agujero

🕳️

escaparse

irse

gotera

grieta

perder

raja

pérdida

hendedura

rezumar

rezumarse

rotura

teca

vía de agua

goteando

pipi

abandonar

perder agua

abertura

acriminar

acusar

entregar

escapar

filtrarse

fosa

hendidura

inculpar

mear

suministrar

vía

agujereado

chorrear

fisura

gotearse

Sinónimos

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

🚰

Traducciones

fuite

lecken

διαρροή

Leck

fuir

fuga

✈️

falla

🕳️

lek

perdere

fessura

διαρρέω

perdita

crepa

couler

colare

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/liːk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: leken

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *lecan

Cognado con neerlandés: lekken

Cognado con alemán: lechen

Cognado con danés: lække

Cognado con sueco: läcka

Cognado con islandés: leka

Cognado con inglés antiguo: leċċan

Cognado con albanés: 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.