Leak vs Penetrate - What's the difference?
leak | penetrate |
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:
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between leak and penetrate
is that leak is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed while penetrate is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.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 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 […].
Anagrams
* * ----penetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
- to penetrate one's heart with pity
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- (Shakespeare)