leak

(Askeri) KAPSÜLÜN GAZ KAÇIRMASI: Bir fişek veya mermide; kusurlu imalat veya fazla barut hakkından ileri gelen ve sıcak sevk gazlarının, kapsülden kısmen kaçmasına yol açan bozukluk

primer leak

(Askeri) kapsülün gaz kaçırması

spring a leak

akmaya başlamak: The barrel's sprung a leak. Fıçı akmaya başladı

stuffed leak

(Gıda) pırasa dolması

English - English

Definition of leak in English English dictionary: To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed
The faucet has been leaking since last month.; To reveal secret information
Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.; A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape
a leak in a gas pipe.; The person through whom information, especially secret information, escapes
The press must have learned about the plan through a leak.; The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture
The leak gained on the ship's pumps.; {n} a hole which lets water in or out, drop, run out; soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi; 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; Winning poker players often lose back part or all of their winnings through other gambling habits, either at the casino or elsewhere (e g , sports betting, craps, or golf) These are often referred to as leaks; - The unfortunate problem of water escaping the water mattress; Leak means any verifiable failure in any component of a PB Plumbing System leading to unwanted discharge of water exclusive of (1) a leak in the first year of any applicable warranty period provided by the unit's builder, contractor or manufacturer (2) a leak resulting from abuse of such system or circumstances unrelated to ordinary use of such system, including acts of nature (e g earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, etc ) (3) a leak that may be repaired without cutting the wall in or at (a) a valve, or (b) a riser (which is the connecting line from a shut-off valve to a fixture) or an adapter to a fixture and (4) a leak in an ice-maker line; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks; to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak"; a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak"; enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement"; unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information; The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps; {i} hole caused by damage or wear through which liquid seeps; drip, seepage; any opening through which something can escape; revealing of secret or confidential information; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; usually with in or out; soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"; have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"; 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 With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out) This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in {memory leak} and {fd leak} have their own entries; one might also refer, to, say, a `window handle leak' in a window system; A visible seepage of fluid or noticeable detection of fumes; 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. Leak is also a noun. More serious leaks, possibly involving national security, are likely to be investigated by the police. 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; A memory leak is where allocated memory(2) is not freed although it is never used again; tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper"; {f} allow a liquid or other substance to enter or escape through a small hole or opening; escape or pass through a leak; divulge confidential or secret information; let secret information be be revealed; A leak in the band can either be small or dramatic and treatments can range from more frequent fills to removal and replacement of the band A leak is rarely dangerous, but it can decrease the efficacy of the band; A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs; an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc ) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak"; the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"; to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak" a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly" enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement" be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy" tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper; Technically, a leak is a hole or porosity in an enclosure capable of passing a fluid from the higher pressure side to the lower pressure side Leaks are often conceived of being simply a round hole, however, this is almost never the case A leak normally has an involved geometry sometimes extending quite a distance from beginning to end As a result, leakage repair may require locating both the start and end of the leak See Leak Testing Primer; Leaky; To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc; unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc; tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper; 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. Leak is also a noun. It's thought a gas leak may have caused the blast; be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"; To allocate dynamic memory during a program's execution and then fail to deallocate it before losing access to it Leaking causes a program to grow in size as it executes, since the dynamic memory manager does not know that it could "reuse" the (now unused) memory which has been allowed to leak¤; To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc
leak fungus: fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes
leak of information: disclosure of information
leak out: be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"
leak out: slowly seep out through a hole or crack; gradually become known (i.e. secret)
leaked: Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press
A leaked memo from Downing Street reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week.
leaked: Simple past tense and past participle of leak
leaking: Present participle of leak
leakproof: Resistant to leaks; hermetic, sound; as of a dry cell battery
There are two subdivisions in the flashlight dry cell range, the ordinary cheap one and the better-quality leakproof cell..
memory leak: Any of several faults in a personal computer's memory allocation logic whereby parts of memory become unusable or hidden
I tracked down my program's memory leak to a function that didn't release graphics resources properly.
take a leak: To urinate
memory leak: (Bilgisayar) In computer science, a memory leak is a particular kind of unintentional memory consumption by a computer program where the program fails to release memory when no longer needed. This condition is normally the result of a bug in a program that prevents it from freeing up memory that it no longer needs
air leak: small space through which air escapes
air leak: A crack or hole that accidentally admits a gas or lets it escape (099)
air leak: when air leaks through holes in the lung tissue into the spaces outside the lung airways
air leak: what happens when something on the suction side is not airtight Pool pumps need to create a vacuum in order to work properly Air leaks can be dangerous as trapped air can be compressed, causing high pressures Aeration of water can cause foam
leaked: past of leak
leaked: Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organisation, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press
leaker: {i} person or thing that leaks, person or thing which allows something to get out or escape (fluid, information, etc.)
leaker: a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know who the leakers were
leaker: Somebody who leaks information
leaker: a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know who the leakers were"
leaker: A leaker is someone who lets people know secret information. He found no direct evidence to identify a leaker
leakers: Plural of leaker
leaking: {s} that leaks, that allows a liquid to enter or escape; that has a leak
leaking: (of ships and boats) permitting leakage
leakproof: having no leaks
leakproof: {s} resistant to leakage, sealed against leaks
leaks: third-person singular of leak
leaks: plural of leak
memory leak: When programs start, they are given areas of memory for their very own When the programs stop, they are supposed to notify the operating system that these areas are available for other programs This doesn't always happen Sometimes programs don't give the memory back, leaving it in limbo, unusable for other programs This "leak" of memory away from usefulness can cut into your computer's performance Sad to say, it's a common failure of Windows programs If the operating system doesn't stop such leaks, the only way to get all the memory back into operation again is to restart
memory leak: n An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion Also (esp at CMU) called {core leak} These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were commonly written to root them out With the advent of virtual memory, it is unfortunately easier to be sloppy about wasting a bit of memory (although when you run out of memory on a VM machine, it means you've got a *real* leak!) See {aliasing bug}, {fandango on core}, {smash the stack}, {precedence lossage}, {overrun screw}, {leaky heap}, {leak}
memory leak: A condition that occurs when applications allocate memory for use but do not free allocated memory when finished
memory leak: A bug in a program that prevents it from freeing discarded memory and causes it to use increasing amounts of memory A KEXT that experiences a memory leak may not be able to unload
memory leak: ``An error in a program's dynamic-store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim discarded memory, leading to eventual collapse due to memory exhaustion ''
memory leak: Memory no longer needed, but not deallocated by the OO system An application should finalize an object when it is no longer required When an application no longer has a handle to an object which still exists, the object is effectively unreachable, and can no longer be finalized This is a memory leak
memory leak: Making malloc calls without the corresponding calls to free The result is that the amount of heap memory used continues to increase as the process runs
memory leak: A situation in which memory that is no longer being used has not been returned to the pool of free memory A garbage collector is designed to return unreferenced objects to the free memory pool in order to avoid memory leaks
memory leak: A programming term describing the losing of memory This happens when the program allocates some memory but fails to return it to the system Excessive memory leaks can lead to program failure after a sufficiently long period of time
security leak: leak of information that could endanger public safety
spring a leak: beginning of a leak, start of a dripping
stop a leak: block a leak, plug a drip
take a leak: (Slang) urinate

leak

Turkish pronunciation

lik

Synonyms

aperture, chink, crack, crevice, decrease, destruction, detriment, drip, drop, escape, expenditure, exposure, fissure, flow, hole

Pronunciation

/ˈlēk/ /ˈliːk/

Etymology

[ 'lEk ] (verb.) 14th century. From Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), of Low Saxon or North Germanic origin, compare Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”), Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”), both from Proto-Germanic *likanan (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg(')- (“to leak”). Cognate with Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Old High German lecchen (“to drain, become dry”), German Leck (“a leak”). More at leach, lake.