Expose vs. Leak — What's the Difference?

Make (something) visible by uncovering it

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.

Reveal the true, objectionable nature of (someone or something)

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

Subject (photographic film) to light when operating a camera

To escape or pass through a breach or flaw

A report in the media that reveals something discreditable

To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy

An exposure or a revelation of something discreditable.

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

A formal exposition of facts.

To disclose without authorization or official sanction

To subject or allow to be subjected to an action, influence, or condition

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

To subject (a photographic film, for example) to the action of light.

The act or instance of leaking.

To deprive of shelter or protection; lay open to danger or harm

An amount leaked

To make visible

An unauthorized or a deliberate disclosure of confidential information

To make known (something discreditable).

Loss of electric current as a result of faulty insulation.

To reveal the guilt or wrongdoing of

The path or place at which this loss takes place.

To engage in indecent exposure of (oneself).

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).

The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.

(transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.

A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.

(transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.

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

To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.

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

To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

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

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

An act of urination.

To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.

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

To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.

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

To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.

(ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

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

The exposure of an impostor or a fraud;

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

Expose or make accessible to some action or influence;

To urinate.

Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;

To bleed.

To show, make visible or apparent;

(obsolete) Leaky.

Remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body;

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.

Disclose to view as by removing a cover;

The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.

Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

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

Expose to light, of photographic film

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

Expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas;

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.

Abandon by leaving out in the open air;

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;