LEAF
\lˈiːf], \lˈiːf], \l_ˈiː_f]\
Definitions of LEAF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
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the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
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hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
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produce leaves, of plants
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turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"
By Princeton University
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look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
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the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
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hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
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produce leaves, of plants
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
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A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
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Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
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To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
By Oddity Software
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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
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A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
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Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
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To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the thin flat parts of a plant borne by the stem; a thinly beaten sheet; as, gold leaf used in gilding domes, etc.; something thin and flat, as a single sheet of a book with a page on each side, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A plant organ, commonly a flat expansion of a vascular bundle enclosed in a parenchyma containing chlorophyll.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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One of the thin, flat parts of plants: anything beaten thin like a leaf: two pages of a book: one side of a window-shutter, etc.:-pl. LEAVES, lēvz.
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To shoot out or produce leaves:-pa.t. leafing; pa.p. leaded.
By Daniel Lyons
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One of the flat breathing-organs of plants; anything like a leaf, double page of a book, half of a double door.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One of the breathing organs of a plant, growing from the stem, and commonly board, flat, thin, and green; also, something resembling this, as a fold of a book, a movable part of a table, or a valve of a door.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The green deciduous expanded organ of a plant, in which the sap is elaborated by contact with the air and light; a part of a book containing two pages; the side of a window-shutter, folding-door, &c; a something resembling a leaf in thinness and extension; a very thin plate; the moveable side of a table.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A deciduous shoot from the stem or branch of a plant or tree, greenish in colour, thin and palmated in shape, and reticulated in texture for the elaboration of the sap;— figuratively, promise or hope;— part of a book containing two pages;— side or division, as of a double door, shutter, &c.;— movable side of a table, or one of the parts of a telescope table;— a foliated or thinly beaten plate, as of gold, silver, &c.
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