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Leaking vs Losing - What's the difference?

leaking | losing |

As verbs the difference between leaking and losing

is that leaking is while losing is .

As nouns the difference between leaking and losing

is that leaking is the act by which something leaks while losing is the act by which something is lost.

As an adjective losing is

that loses or lose, or has or have lost.

leaking

English

Verb

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    • 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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    losing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That loses or lose, or has or have lost.
    • Being on the losing team is disappointing.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is lost.
  • * 1842 , The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (page 339)
    • We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.

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