leak

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 lēk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
    — a leak in a roof
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
    — The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
    — The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
  4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
    — […] so even if he was the leak, we would never know.
  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.
    — resource leak
  7. An act of urination. especially,mildly,slang,vulgar
    — I have to take a leak.
动词 v.
  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed. transitive
    — The wells are believed to have been leaking oil for decades, long after the operating company ceased to exist.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed. intransitive
    — The faucet has been leaking since last month.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously. ambitransitive
    — Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
  4. To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked. broadly,figuratively,intransitive
    — A target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer.
  5. To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked. broadly,figuratively,transitive
    — 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.
  6. To urinate. euphemistic,slang,sometimes
    — I had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.
  7. To bleed. US,slang
    — He shanked him, now he's leaking.
形容词 adj.
  1. Leaky. obsolete
    — Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].

词形变化

leaks plural leaks present,singular,third-person leaking participle,present leaked participle,past leaked past more leak comparative most leak superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
leach

词源

词源 1
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- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
(divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
词源 2
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- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
(divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
词源 3
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- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake.
(divulgation, disclosure of information): Compare typologically Bulgarian изтичане (iztičane), Polish przeciek, Russian уте́чка (utéčka) (akin to течь impf or f (tečʹ)).
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