leaf

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

leaves

1.
(countable, uncountable)The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
3.
(countable, uncountable)Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
4.
(countable, uncountable)(publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
5.
(countable, uncountable)A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
gold leaf
Đồng nghĩa: folio, folium
6.
(countable, uncountable)One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
7.
(countable, in plural, uncountable)(in the plural) Tea leaves.
8.
(countable, uncountable)A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
11.
(countable, uncountable)The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
12.
(countable, uncountable)One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

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verb

V_es/s

leafs

V_ing/Gerund

leafing

V_ed/pp

leafed

1.
(intransitive)To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2.
(transitive)To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
3.
(informal, transitive, uncommon)To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.

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folio folium leavephyllon

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foliagefrond needle

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English lef, leef, from Old English lēaf, from *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (leaf), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (to cut off). 2 cog Cognate with leaf, laafe, luuf, Loof, leaf, loap, loof, Laub, Loov, Laf, lap, łaub, łaup, łojp (leaf), løv, leyv, lauf, lauv, löv, 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃; also luibh, liber, labë, lúobas, łub, луб.