leaves

/liːvz/

noun

  1. 1

    The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

  2. 2

    Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

  3. 3

    A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

    gold leaf
  4. 4

    A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

  5. 5

    (in the plural) Tea leaves.

  6. 6

    A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

  7. 7

    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.
  8. 8

    A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.

  9. 9

    In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

  10. 10

    The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.

  11. 11

    One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

  12. 12

    Marijuana.

  13. 13

    (4chan) A Canadian person.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To have a consequence or remnant.

  2. 2

    To depart; to separate from.

  3. 3

    To transfer something.

  4. 4

    To remain (behind); to stay.

  5. 5

    To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

noun

  1. 1

    The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

  2. 2

    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).

noun

  1. 1

    Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

    I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
  2. 2

    Permission.

    Might I beg leave to accompany you?
  3. 3

    Farewell, departure.

    I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.

verb

  1. 1

    To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

    We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.

verb

  1. 1

    To produce leaves or foliage.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To raise; to levy.

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