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Leaking vs Leaky - What's the difference?

leaking | leaky |

As a verb leaking

is .

As a noun leaking

is the act by which something leaks.

As an adjective leaky is

having leaks, not sealed.

leaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something leaks.
  • (in the plural) That which leaks out.
  • * 2007 , Lynne Conner, Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater (page 15)
    • on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.

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    leaky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having leaks, not sealed.
    • The leaky bucket only dripped one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.