Search Result for "leakage":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. the discharge of a fluid from some container;
- Example: "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"
- Example: "he had to clean up the leak"
[syn: escape, leak, leakage, outflow]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Leakage \Leak"age\, n. [Cf. D. lekkage, for sense 1.] 1. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking. [1913 Webster] 2. (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking. [1913 Webster] 3. (Elec.) A leak[3]; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "leakage": ablation, access, admission, break, breakout, consumption, decrease, decrement, deliverance, delivery, depletion, depreciation, dissipation, distillation, drain, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, drop, emergence, entrance, entree, entry, erosion, escape, escapism, evaporation, evasion, exhaustion, expenditure, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, import, importation, importing, impoverishment, income, incoming, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leaking, liberation, outlet, penetration, percolation, prisonbreak, reception, release, rescue, riddance, seepage, setting-free, shrinkage, trickle, using, using up, vent, wastage, waste, wearing, wearing away
