leaky meaning

• Adjective: leaky (leakier,leakiest)  leekee
  1. Permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases
     "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defence system" 
  2. Used informally; unable to retain urine 
  3. Prone to communicate confidential information
     - blabbermouthed, talebearing, tattling

  Derived forms: leakier, leakiest

  See also: communicative, communicatory, drafty [N. Amer], draughty [Brit, Cdn], drippy, holey, incontinent, leak, leakiness, oozing, oozy, permeable, porous, seeping, unseaworthy

  Antonym: tight

  Encyclopedia: Leaky

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  [Electronics]
  1. Descriptive of a capacitor in which the dielectric material is not a perfect insulator.
  2. Descriptive of imperfect shielding in a coaxial transmission line.
  3. Descriptive of a waveguide with imperfect shielding.
  
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  [Medicine]
  adj : relating to or being a mutant gene that changes the structure of the protein and esp. an enzyme that it determines so that some but not all of its biological activity is lost; also : being such a protein with subnormal activity
  

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Examples

1. that your onions are a cure for a leaky roof
2. the leaky cauldron . if you have pea soup ..
3. -the leaky cauldron .-next stop, knockturn alley
4. the leaky cauldron .-next stop, knockturn alley
5. that your onions are a cure for a leaky roof