Leak
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.
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
Leaky.
To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
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.
A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.
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Leak Quotations
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Billy Sunday
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes
I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.
Steve Buyer
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
Matt Drudge
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
Karl Rove
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
Charles Olson
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
Joshua Slocum
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
John Bunyan
There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
Daniel Ellsberg
The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any additional speculation.
Robert Luskin
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
Douglas Feaver
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Leak Translations
leak in German is lecken, Leck, entweichen
leak in Italian is falla
leak in Latin is effluo
leak in Norwegian is lekkasje, lekk
leak in Spanish is fuga
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