What's the difference between entrance and leak?

Entrance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
  • (n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
  • (n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
  • (n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
  • (n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
  • (n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
  • (n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
  • (v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
  • (v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
  • (2) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
  • (3) In every center the average whole-breast dose to a reference organ (5 cm thick, composed of 50% fat + 50% water) was calculated on the basis of entrance exposure, HVL, and focus-skin distance; in 63.2% of the centers doses less than 0.15 cGy were employed.
  • (4) A catheter was placed in the epidural space, with entrance through L3-L4 and its extreme in L1.
  • (5) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
  • (6) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
  • (7) Motile sperm were seen at the uterine entrance to the uterotubal junction (UTJ) in all females at 1-2 h pc, but in fewer females at later times.
  • (8) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (9) Various tests to assess arthritis were performed upon each patient's entrance into the study and at specified intervals throughout the 24-month study period.
  • (10) UNCONFIRMED reports of men wounded March 18, 2014 Ed Flanagan (@edmundflanagan) Entrance to base.
  • (11) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (12) Hypoxemia was progressive from the time of entrance of the bronchoscope into the respiratory tree and continued into the immediate postbronchoscopic period when the mean fall was about 16 mm Hg.
  • (13) Rather, they will likely restrict their entrance by way of the most traditional route.
  • (14) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
  • (15) The vesicles exhibited apparent "entrance" I- counterflow but no apparent Na+-dependent I- transport activity.
  • (16) Main issues of health entrancing job design are: (1) Essential approaches of prevention are to be reevaluated.
  • (17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
  • (18) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
  • (19) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the physiological activity observed with both PAES and PAESe may be related to their ability to gain entrance to adrenergic neurons and decrease norepinephrine synthesis within neurotransmitter storage vesicles.
  • (20) Spectral differences in image size are proportional to the eye's longitudinal chromatic aberration and the axial distance between the entrance pupil and nodal point.

Leak


Definition:

  • (v.) 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.
  • (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.
  • (a.) Leaky.
  • (n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (2) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
  • (3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
  • (4) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
  • (5) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
  • (6) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
  • (7) The toxicity at this dose included pericarditis and dyspnoea ascribed to a 'capillary-leak' syndrome.
  • (8) Horseradish peroxidase was not observed to leak from the lumen of new vessels.
  • (9) The cation leak identified in this manner is not prelytic, and it is fully reversible.
  • (10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (11) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
  • (12) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
  • (13) 2) MTC was useful for the resection of the lung because of no air leak and bleeding coming from the resected section.
  • (14) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (15) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
  • (16) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
  • (17) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
  • (18) Cardiac disorders being usually concomitant with this syndrome (interventricular leak, pulmonary arterial wedge stenosis etc.)
  • (19) Thus, both pump-mediated and leak Na+ effluxes were voltage independent.
  • (20) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.