Meaning

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

  "a leak in a boat"

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

  "The babies' diapers had big leaks."

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

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

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

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

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

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

  "memory leak"

• (especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.

  "I have to take a leak."

Meaning

• To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

  "The faucet has been leaking since last month."

• (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.

  "No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room."

• To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

  "Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon."

Meaning

• Leaky.