Leak vs Flood - What's the difference?
leak | flood |
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:
A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods , were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
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, title= (lb) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
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The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood , leads on to fortune.
A floodlight.
Menstrual discharge; menses.
:(Harvey)
To overflow.
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
(figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
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(Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
English ergative verbs
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As nouns the difference between leak and flood
is that leak is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape while flood is a (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.As verbs the difference between leak and flood
is that leak is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed while flood is to overflow.As an adjective leak
is leaky.As a proper noun Flood is
the flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament.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
* * ----flood
English
(wikipedia flood)Alternative forms
* floud (obsolete)Noun
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Verb
(en verb)- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
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