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Leak vs Gash - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between leak and gash

is that leak is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape while gash is a deep cut.

As verbs the difference between leak and gash

is that leak is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed while gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.

As an adjective leak

is leaky.

leak

English

Noun

(leak) (en noun)
  • A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  • a leak in a roof
    a leak in a boat
    a leak in a gas pipe
  • The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  • The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  • A divulgation, or disclosure, of information held secret until then.
  • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
  • The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurred.
  • The press must have learned about the plan through a leak .
  • (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  • resource leak
    memory leak
  • An act of urination.
  • I have to take a leak .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Leaky.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
  • Yet is the bottle leake , and bag so torne, / That all which I put in fals out anon […].

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    gash

    English

    Noun

    (gashes)
  • A deep cut.
  • * 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:
  • Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
  • (slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
  • * 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
  • “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
  • (slang, offensive) A woman
  • (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
  • (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
  • (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
  • (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
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