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Leak vs Gost - What's the difference?

leak | gost |

As nouns the difference between leak and gost

is that leak is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape while gost is obsolete form of lang=en|ghost.

As a verb leak

is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.

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 […].

    Anagrams

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    gost

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ghost

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1600 , year_published=2004 , edition=reprint , author=Richard Hakluyt , title=Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Kessinger Publishing , isbn=9781419178733 , page=68 , passage= ... may non evylle gost entre ne come unto the place that it is inne.}}

    Related terms

    * geist

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