transcription, транскрипция: [ li:k ]
( leaks, leaking, leaked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If a container leaks , there is a hole or crack in it which lets a substance such as liquid or gas escape. You can also say that a container leaks a substance such as liquid or gas.
The roof leaked...
The pool’s fiberglass sides had cracked and the water had leaked out...
A large diesel tank mysteriously leaked its contents into the river.
VERB : V , V prep / adv , V n into n , also V n
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Leak is also a noun.
It’s thought a gas leak may have caused the blast.
N-COUNT
2.
A leak is a crack, hole, or other gap that a substance such as a liquid or gas can pass through.
...a leak in the radiator...
In May engineers found a leak in a hydrogen fuel line.
N-COUNT : oft N in n
3.
If a secret document or piece of information leaks or is leaked , someone lets the public know about it.
Last year, a civil servant was imprisoned for leaking a document to the press...
He revealed who leaked a confidential police report...
We don’t know how the transcript leaked.
...a leaked report.
VERB : V n to n , V n , V , V-ed
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Leak is also a noun.
More serious leaks, possibly involving national security, are likely to be investigated by the police.
N-COUNT
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Leak out means the same as leak .
More details are now beginning to leak out...
He said it would leak out to the newspapers and cause a scandal.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P to n