English Dictionary

leak

IPA（発音記号）

/liːk/

名詞

特に 俗語 卑語 コロケーション アメリカ英語

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. / The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

日本語の意味

液体やその他の流体が漏れ出す、または侵入するための亀裂、割れ目、隙間などを指し、パイプなどの接続部分や建物の構造における不具合として現れる場合がある。

We discovered a leak in the basement wall after the heavy rain.

大雨の後、地下室の壁に水が入る亀裂を見つけた。

意味（1）

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

a leak in a roof

意味（2）

The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

The leak gained on the ship's pumps.

意味（3）

A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.

The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.

意味（4）

The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

The press must have learned about the plan through a leak.

意味（5）

A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.

意味（6）

(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

resource leak

意味（7）

(vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.

I have to take a leak.

意味（8）

(slang, US) To bleed.

He shanked him, now he's leaking.

leaks （ plural ）