Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Permitting leaks or leakage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a leak or leaks; allowing water or other fluid, etc., to pass in or out through an aperture or apertures: as, a leaky boat; a leaky barrel.
- Hence Apt to disclose secrets; babbling; tattling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out.
- adjective colloq. Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
- adjective (Genetics) Retaining some function; not completely inactivating the gene; ; -- of mutations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
leaks , not sealed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used informally; unable to retain urine
- adjective prone to communicate confidential information
- adjective permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases
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Examples
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He does have moments a fear while living in what he describes as a leaky spacesuit.
WUSA-TV - Vodcasts 2008
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Cities and towns shouldn't have to worry that the water lost in leaky pipes will mean ongoing shortages or usage restrictions.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: When I Learned that Water Isn't Supposed to Have a Taste Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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Cities and towns shouldn't have to worry that the water lost in leaky pipes will mean ongoing shortages or usage restrictions.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: When I Learned that Water Isn't Supposed to Have a Taste Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins 2010
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You know, it's interesting to note that Secretary Clinton used the word leaky to describe past U.N. sanctions, obviously referring to the fact that they have not always been as effective as they were hoping they could be.
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All these produce what is called a leaky gut otherwise known as altered intestinal permeability.
The UltraMetabolism Cookbook M.D. Mark Hyman 2007
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The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.
Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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"If you call a leaky old ferryboat with the weather so damp that you can't touch the rail without feeling as if you have had a dip in the briny -- if that's what you call romantic, then give me a good open fire and plenty of chicken bones to gnaw."
The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained Laura Lee Hope
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But somewhere around the post-doc to professional scientist level, something happens which studies refer to as the "leaky pipeline."
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Rachel Mastrapa - Paving the Way for Astronomical Discoveries SETI Institute 2011
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But somewhere around the post-doc to professional scientist level, something happens which studies refer to as the "leaky pipeline."
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Rachel Mastrapa - Paving the Way for Astronomical Discoveries SETI Institute 2011
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