Leak vs. Percolate — What's the Difference?

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.

To cause (liquid, for example) to pass through a porous substance or small holes; filter.

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

To pass or ooze through

To escape or pass through a breach or flaw

To make (coffee) in a percolator.

To become publicly known through a breach of secrecy

To drain or seep through a porous material or filter.

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

(Informal) To become lively or active.

To disclose without authorization or official sanction

(Informal) To spread slowly or gradually.

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

A liquid that has been percolated.

The act or instance of leaking.

(transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.

An amount leaked

(intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.

An unauthorized or a deliberate disclosure of confidential information

(transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.

Loss of electric current as a result of faulty insulation.

To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.

The path or place at which this loss takes place.

(rare) A liquid that has been percolated.

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

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

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

The product of percolation

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

Permeate or penetrate gradually;

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

Spread gradually;

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

Prepare in a percolator;

An act of urination.

Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent

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

Pass through;

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

Gain or regain energy;

(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;