Pour vs Leak - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between pour and leak

is that pour is to cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it while leak is to allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed.

As nouns the difference between pour and leak

is that pour is the act of pouring while leak is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

As an adjective leak is

leaky.

pour

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pouren, . Displaced native Middle English schenchen, ).

Verb

(en verb)

To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it.

To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.

* The Bible, 1 i. 15.

Ihave poured out my soul before the Lord.

* The Bible, vii. 8

Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.

* (William Shakespeare)

London doth pour out her citizens!

* (John Milton)

Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}

To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

* A. Pope

Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?

To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.

* Gay

In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 8, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC

, title= Arsenal 1-1 Leeds , passage=In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort}}

Synonyms

* (pour a drink) shink, skink

Derived terms

* pourable * pourer * pouringly * inpour * outpour * pour one's heart out

Noun

(en noun)

The act of pouring.

Something, or an amount, poured.

* 2003 , John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2

Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.

(colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.

A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.

Etymology 2

Verb

(head)

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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 […].

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