leaf meaning

• Noun: leaf (leaves)  leef
  1. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
     - leafage, foliage 
  2. A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
     - folio 
  3. Hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
  Verb: leaf  leef
  1. Look through a book or other written material
     "She leafed through the volume"
     - flick, flip, thumb, riffle, riff 
  2. Turn over pages
     "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript" 
  3. Produce leaves, of plants

  Sounds like: lief

  Derived forms: leafing, leafs, leafed

  See also: foliaceous, leaflet, leafy

  Type of: acquire, develop, get, grow, peruse, piece of paper, plant organ, produce, section, segment, sheet, sheet of paper, turn, turn over

  Part of: black and white, dinner table, written communication, written language

  Encyclopedia: Leaf Leaf, Munro

• 
  [American slang]
  n. cocaine. (Sometimes with the. Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of the coca plant.)
  • Sure I like plants. I am especially fond of the leaf.
  • The entire shipment of leaf was seized by the feds.
  
  
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  [Architecture]
  1.

  A hinged part; a separately movable division of a folding or sliding door.

  2.

  One of a pair of doors or windows.

  3.

  One of the two halves of a cavity wall.

• 
  [Medicine]
  n : a thin layer or sheet of tissue ‹the anterior leaf of the coronary ligament is continuous with the right leaf of the falciform ligament›
  

[Computer]
<language> 1. LISP Extended Algebraic Facility.

2. "LEAF: A Language which Integrates Logic, Equations and Functions", R. Barbuti et al in Logic Programming, Functions Relations and Equations, D. DeGroot et al eds, P-H 1986, pp.201-238.

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Examples

1. the trees would be just bursting into leaf.
2. the falling leaf spiraled to the ground.
3. i was leaf to everything that he could urge.
4. but they must turn over a new leaf.
5. you must take it off, leaf by leaf.