Leak vs False - What's the difference?
leak | false |
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.
The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
An act of urination.
To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.
To reveal secret information.
(obsolete) Leaky.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between leak and false
is that leak is (obsolete) leaky while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun leak
is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.As a verb leak
is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.leak
English
Noun
(leak) (en noun)- a leak in a roof
- a leak in a boat
- a leak in a gas pipe
- The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
- The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
- The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .
- resource leak
- memory leak
- I have to take a leak .
Verb
(en verb)- The faucet has been leaking since last month.
- ''Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Yet is the bottle leake , and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].
Anagrams
* * ----false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}