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leaf English

Meaning leaf meaning

What does leaf mean?
Definitions in simple English

leaf Noun

— A big, flat part of a plant, often green. The leaves turn red and yellow in the fall. — The front and back of a page in a book. I study the leaves of the book carefully.

leaf Verb

— To look through quickly, browse. She leafed through the book. — To make leaves. The trees leafed in early spring.

leaf

— noun the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants — verb produce leaves, of plants — noun a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) — noun hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) — verb turn over pages leaf through a book leaf a manuscript — verb (= thumb) look through a book or other written material He thumbed through the report She leafed through the volume

Synonyms leaf synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as leaf?

leaf English » English

sheet foliage page leaves blade petal paper frond folio tree leaf stem panel lamina foil wrapper twig turn over thumb sheet of paper riffle riff plate lobe leave leaflet leafage lamella flip flick browse book wing wide wafer vegetable vane tinsel thin sheet tea tablet table strangler sprout slip slide slice slab side shutter blade sheet paper

Topics leaf topics

What do people use leaf to talk about?
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing fruit

Growing bananas
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing grass

Growing tobacco
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials
Universe, creation Plant

Growth of plants
Social behavior Behavior

Change behavior
Daily life Food Types of food Food from plants

Food from vegetables
Daily life Food Types of food Cooking ingredients

Spice
Work and occupation Occupation Crafts

Weaving baskets and mats
States Quality Light Color

Colors of the spectrum

Conjugation leaf conjugation

How do you conjugate leaf?

leaf · verb

Examples leaf examples

How do I use leaf in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A horseshoe and a four-leaf clover bring good luck.
He's trembling like an aspen leaf.
Meg found a four leaf clover.
The last leaf of this book is missing.
A dead leaf fell to the ground.
Have you ever found a four-leaf clover?
My son doesn't talk back these days; he must have turned over a new leaf.
He turned over a new leaf in life.
Leaf after leaf fell to the ground.
He danced like a leaf in the autumn wind.
Take a leaf out of his book.
The criminal became a Christian and turned over a new leaf.
A fallen leaf floated on the surface of the water.
You must turn over a new leaf and work as hard as possible.
He is shaking like a leaf.
A leaf is falling.
The leaf and the tree are falling.
Tom and Mary grow leaf lettuce in their garden.
She trembled like a leaf.
I've turned over a new leaf.

Movie subtitles

Save in one spot, where the linden leaf clung, is he vulnerable as other men!
Who warrants me that in the heat of battle not a chance blade should pierce where the lime leaf fell?
Look, I found a four-leaf clover.
Yeah, I'm shaking like a leaf.
It's nonsense to tremble before a little ghost who returns- a dead leaf blowing around your feet.
He trembled like a leaf.
Everybody must work together in order to obtain the palm leaf fan and put out the flames.
She has a palm leaf fan.
She lives in Palm Leaf Cave at Emerald Cloud Mountain.
Did you get the palm leaf fan?
I've come from Palm Leaf Cave to look for Bull Demon King.
Why don't you go back to Palm Leaf Cave?
Please ask your wife to lend us the palm leaf fan for a while.
He wasn't sent from Palm Leaf Cave at all.
Bring up a guy above his level, he gets to thinking he knows it all and gets thrown flatter than gold leaf.
You're shaking like a leaf.
Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history.
Ooh, I'm shaking like a leaf.
I'm shaking like a leaf. But it's straight down the line for both of us.
For a minute I thought I found a four-leaf clover.
You're shaking like a leaf!
Your son will be out of bed before the first leaf falls.
Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf.
A hand that was shaking like a leaf.
A four-leaf clover.
And. in the far right-hand corner of your coat of arms. you have a four-leaf clover on a cloth of gold.
Oft in the stilly night, the trembling of a leaf can be heard. sighing through the trees.
Gee, I'm shaking like a leaf.
I'm afraid they want to use the palm leaf fan to pass Fiery Mountain.
Maybe I should go over to Palm Leaf Cave.

News and current affairs

Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.
Evo Morales, the leader of the opposition and of the coca-leaf growers, may be an honest, if misguided, democratic leader, but are his followers untainted by authoritarian desires?
Meanwhile, France relies heavily on low-carbon nuclear power, and is switching rapidly to electric vehicles, such as the pioneering Renault-Nissan Leaf.
If they wish to stay the course in the struggle against international terrorism, European leaders must take a leaf or two from Blair's book.
The Communists wanted a political system that would allow them to continue in power, with us as a fig leaf, and we were willing to give them some of that for the chance of having Solidarity legal again and of beginning a new process of legal change.
Sadat would, of course, continue to champion the Palestinian cause as the heart of an Arab consensus and sometimes as a fig leaf for his own Egypt-focused foreign policy.
In fact, such distances seem implausible, given electric cars' poor range: the Nissan Leaf, for example, can go only 117 kilometers on a charge.
Germany's government seems to have little appetite for breaking up Deutsche Bank, and the French have taken a leaf from the British book and implemented their own reform.
The regime's behavior no doubt fueled the terrifying rise of the Islamic State as well, providing Assad with a trump card in his bid for international support - and Russia with a fig leaf.
In its most recent report on the global trade in illegal drugs, the US State Department stressed the increase in coca leaf crops in Peru and Bolivia last year.
Washington believes anti-drug policies will fail, to the benefit of drug dealers, if coca growers continue to identify themselves with nationalists who vindicate the leaf's production.
The resumption of the peace process with the Palestinian Authority can be only a fig leaf.
If Western Europe took a leaf from the US, it would be more peaceful within its own borders and better able to use the talents and leadership of its Turkish, Algerian, Caribbean, and other immigrants.
Pakistan's New Leaf?
Perhaps the government believed that mass protests - with placards denouncing the EU as a fig leaf for revived German domination of Europe - would strengthen its hand.
Instead, Abe should take a leaf from his speech to the US Congress in April.
President Evo Morales's rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.
With a few minor exceptions, migration is internal to the region, and a modus vivendi has been reached with the drug trade, mainly coca leaf and cocaine in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

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