leak

Signification (English)

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.

Concepts

fuite

fuir

couler

suinter

filtrer

s’échapper

dénoncer

évacuer

voie d'eau

évacuation

goutter

infiltration

livrer

orifice

passerelle

percer

précipice

répandre

révéler

saignement

🩸

sortie

taupe

toit

avoir une fuite

craquelure

ébruiter

faire couler

fêlure

lézarde

prendre l’eau

s’évader

voie d’eau

échappé|échappée

accuser

fuiter

chanter

crevasse

découler

divulguer

fente

filtration

fissure

fossé

gouffre

Synonyms

drip

leakage

ooze

seep

trickle

hole

🕳️

flow

escape

drop

run out

leak out

pour out

ooze out

snitch

dribble

denounce

crack

reveal

leaking

exude

dripping

flow out

disclose

be leaky

run

outflow

stream out

divulge

seepage

aperture

bleed

🩸

pour

spill

bleeding

🩸

drift away

wetting

sweat

😓

outleakage

vent

water

🚰

flaw

making water

fissure

news leak

passing water

gush forth

stream

blurt

gap

spring a leak

leaky

drain off

trickle down

irrigate

issue

leakiness

leave

loophole

make known

melt

micturition

opening

open up

orifice

outlet

pass

penetrate

percolation

perforated

permeate

piss

pit

print

provide

publicize

publish

puncture

purvey

put out

putrescence

putridness

quit

rat

🐀

release

renounce

revelation

roof

rotten

rottenness

running off

runoff

run-out

rupture

sinus

slip

slippage

smear

smudge

soak through

spillage

spill out

spillover

spill the beans

spoiled

supply

take in

take on

trill

ullage

untight

urination

water loss

way out

well out

wound

write

✍️

yield

fall in drops

gas leak

leak away

spot with rain

take in water

wantage

soak into

inleakage

leakance

drip into

exude ooze

leakage loss

bleed-off

water leakage

non-watertight

water leak

leak-off

leak of water

abandon

leak-off escape

accuse

addled

allege

bad

👎

bilge

bilk

blab

bore

bring on

bring out

burrow

burst

carious

carry

cave

cavity

charge

circulate

cleft

crevice

cut

deliver

den

desert

🏜️

discharge

disclosure

display

distil

dodge

drain

drop out

drop-out

effuse

emanation

emission

evade

exit

expose

exposure

filter

flee

flight

✈️

flux

forsake

furnish

gateway

get away

get out

geyser

gossip

gutter

hatch

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/liːk/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: leken

Inherited from ancien anglais: *lecan

Cognate with néerlandais: lekken

Cognate with allemand: lechen

Cognate with danois: lække

Cognate with suédois: läcka

Cognate with islandais: leka

Cognate with ancien anglais: leċċan

Cognate with albanais: 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.