meaning of leak

1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ships pumps.
3. Leaky.
4. To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc. ; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
5. To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
6. leak With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear leak out. This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a window system. See memory leak, fd leak. [Jargon File]
7. unauthorized especially deliberate disclosure of confidential information

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