leaves
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Definitions ofleaves
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
Example: "gold leaf"
- A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Synonyms: folium
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
Example: "The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side."
- A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- Marijuana.
- (4chan) A Canadian person.
- To have a consequence or remnant.
- To depart; to separate from.
- To transfer something.
- To remain (behind); to stay.
- To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
- The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
Example: "I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss."
- Permission.
Example: "Might I beg leave to accompany you?"
- Farewell, departure.
Example: "I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance."
- To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
Example: "We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend."
- To produce leaves or foliage.
- To raise; to levy.
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