Leaky vs. Leak — What's the Difference?

Permitting leaks or leakage

A leak is a way (usually an opening) for fluid to escape a container or fluid-containing system, such as a tank or a ship's hull, through which the contents of the container can escape or outside matter can enter the container. Leaks are usually unintended and therefore undesired.

Having leaks; not fully sealed.

To permit the escape, entry, or passage of something through a breach or flaw

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask; a leaky faucet.

To escape or pass through a breach or flaw

Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.

To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy

Retaining some function; not completely inactivating the gene; as, substitution mutations are sometimes leaky; - of mutations.

To permit (a substance) to escape or pass through a breach or flaw

Permitting leaks or leakage;

To disclose without authorization or official sanction

(of ships and boats) permitting leakage

A crack or flaw that permits something to escape from or enter a container or conduit

Permitting liquids to penetrate;

The act or instance of leaking.

Used informally; unable to retain urine

An amount leaked

Prone to communicate confidential information

An unauthorized or a deliberate disclosure of confidential information

Loss of electric current as a result of faulty insulation.

The path or place at which this loss takes place.

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 previously held secret.

The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.

(computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.

An act of urination.

(ambitransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

(intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.

(ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.

To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.

To urinate.

To bleed.

(obsolete) Leaky.

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, 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; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.

A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation; also, the point at which such loss occurs.

An act of urinating; - used mostly in the phrase take a leak, i. e. to urinate.

The disclosure of information that is expected to be kept confidential; as, leaks by the White House staff infuriated Nixon; leaks by the Special Prosecutor were criticized as illegal.

Leaky.

To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc.; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; - usually with in or out.

An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape;

Soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi

A euphemism for urination;

The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container;

Unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information

Tell anonymously;

Be leaked;

Enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure;

Have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out;