leak/leek

leak (lēk)

Verb ^{_{leaked, leaking, leaks.}}

Verb. Intransitive

• To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw: rusted pipes that were beginning to leak; a boat leaking at the seams.
• To escape or pass through a breach or flaw: helium leaking slowly from the balloon.
• Informal. To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy: The news has leaked.

Verb. Transitive

• To permit (a substance) to escape or pass through a breach or flaw: a damaged reactor leaking radioactivity into the atmosphere.
• Informal. To disclose without authorisation or official sanction: leaked classified information to a reporter.

Noun

• A crack or flaw that permits something to escape from or enter a container or conduit: fixed the leak in the roof.
• The act or instance of leaking.
• Informal. An unauthorized or a deliberate disclosure of confidential information:
• Loss of electric current as a result of faulty insulation.

leek (lēk)

Noun

An edible plant (Allium porrum) related to the onion and having a white, slender bulb and flat, dark-green leaves.