Leaky

Definition

leak / li:k / n ၁။ (က) ယိုေပါက္။ စိမ့္ေပါက္။ a leak in the roof (ie allowing rain to enter) ❍ a leak in the gas pipe (ie allowing gas to escape). (ခ) ယိုေပါက္စိမ့္ေပါက္မွ ယိုစီး လာေသာေရ၊ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕။ smell a gas leak. ၂။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ သတင္းေပါက္ၾကားျခင္း။ a security leak. ၃။ ( sl ) ဆီးသြားျခင္း။ have / take / go for a leak. v ၁။ (က) စိမ့္သည္။ ယိုသည္။ This boat leaks like a sieve (ie very badly). (ခ) စိမ့္သည္။ ယိုသည္။ The rain’s leaking in. ❍ Air leaked out of the balloon. ❍ DRIP 1 ၂။ ~ sth (to sb) ေပါက္ၾကားသည္။ a leaked document ❍ Who leaked this to the press? ❏ leakage / 'li:kÇdʒ / n ၁။ [U,C] သတင္းေပါက္ၾကားမႈ။ ယိုစိမ့္မႈ။ the leakage of confidential information ❍ a leakage of toxic waste. ၂။ [C] ယိုစိမ့္ထြက္ေသာ ဆီ၊ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕၊ အရာ။ a gas/ oil leakage. ❏ leak out [ PHRV ] ေပါက္ၾကားသည္။ The details were supposed to be secret but they leaked out somehow. ❏ leaky adj ယိုစိမ့္ေသာ။ မလံုေသာ။ a leaky ship / kettle / roof.

Examples

1. The roof is still leaking.
2. If the boiler is faulty
3. it may be leaking dangerous gas.
4. [leak from/out of] : Oil was leaking from the pipeline.
5. [leak into] : Radioactive water has leaked into the reservoir.
6. Staff were interviewed to find out who leaked the story.
7. A secret memorandum had been leaked to the press.
8. A leaked report