weak

adj 1: having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak radio

signal"; "a weak link" [ant: {strong}]

2: lacking power [syn: {powerless}] [ant: {powerful}]

3: overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery

milk"; "weak tea" [syn: {watery}, {washy}]

4: used of vowels or syllables; pronounced with little or no

stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light

syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable" [syn: {unaccented},

{light}]

5: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine

beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn: {fallible},

{frail}, {imperfect}]

6: lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument" [syn: {forceless},

{unforceful}] [ant: {forceful}]

7: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";

"her body looked sapless" [syn: {decrepit}, {feeble}, {infirm},

{sapless}, {weakly}]

8: (grammar) used of verbs having standard (or regular)

inflection

9: lacking physical strength or vigor

10: characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an

effeminate civilization" [syn: {effeminate}]

leak

With a qualifier, one of a class of

resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not

freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they

effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual

exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.

One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a {window

system}.

See {memory leak}, {fd leak}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-04-18)