Leak vs Lea - What's the difference?
leak | lea |
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:
an open field, meadow
*XIX century , Alfred Tennyson,
*:Two children in two neighbor villages
*:Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ;
Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
As verbs the difference between leak and lea
is that leak is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed while lea is to tie, bind.As a noun leak
is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.As an adjective leak
is (obsolete) leaky.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 […].