{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "lik" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/leak.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/leak.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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-, *leǵ- (“to leak”).\nCognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Icelandic leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“I damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.\na leak in a roof\na leak in a boat\na leak in a gas pipe" }, { "mean": "The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.\nThe leak gained on the ship's pumps.\nThe babies' diapers had big leaks." }, { "mean": "A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.\nThe leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military." }, { "mean": "The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.\nThe press must have learned about the plan through a leak." }, { "mean": "A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs." }, { "mean": "(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.\nresource leak\nmemory leak" }, { "mean": "(mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb \"take\") An act of urination.\nI have to take a leak." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.\nThe wells are believed to have been leaking oil for decades, long after the operating company ceased to exist.\nThe faucet has been leaking since last month." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.\nNo one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.\nSomeone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.\n1987, “Man Overboard”, in Yes, Prime Minister, spoken by Bernard Wooley (Derek Fowlds):That's another of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential press briefings; you leak; he's being charged under section 2(A) of the Official Secrets Act." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.\n1989, Kenneth N. Luongo, W. Thomas Wander, The Search for Security in Space (page 149)\nA target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.\n2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman‎: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." }, { "mean": "(slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate\nI had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.\nc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.\n1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:Occasionally bums passed, Mexican mothers passed with children, and the prowl car came by and the cop got out to leak, but most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.\n1965, Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, published 1990, page 125:Go and find a tree. I just leak against a oak over there." }, { "mean": "(slang, US) To bleed.\nHe shanked him, now he's leaking." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Leaky.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Yet is the bottle leake, and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon ." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }