Meaning of leaf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
   countable, uncountable
2. leaf (usually green and flat organ that is the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants)
3. A surname from Old English.
4. A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
   countable, uncountable
5. To turn through the pages of.
6. petal (an often brightly coloured component of the corolla of a flower)
7. A member of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, its organization, or its supporters.
   Canada, slang
8. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
   countable, uncountable
9. To put forth leaves, especially after a period of dormancy: the period in the spring when trees begin to leaf out.
10. blade (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal)
11. A model of car built by Nissan, with a name chosen for its green connotations.
12. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
    countable, uncountable
13. To use (someone) as an example.
14. pad (floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant)
15. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
    countable, uncountable
16. A flat, usually green plant part that grows on the stem and takes in carbon dioxide and sunlight to manufacture food by photosynthesis. Leaves consist of an outer tissue layer (the epidermis) through which water and gases are exchanged, a spongy inner layer of cells that contain chloroplasts, and veins that supply water and minerals and carry out food. Some leaves are simple, while others are compound, consisting of multiple leaflets.
17. sheet, leaf (piece of paper, usually rectangular)
18. One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
    countable, uncountable
19. To produce leaves.
20. Tea leaves.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
21. To look through reading matter casually.Also used with through:browse, dip into, flip through, glance at (or over) (or through), riffle (through), run through, scan, skim, thumb (through).
    through
22. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
    countable, uncountable
23. a small, printed sheet containing information etc. blaadjie, strooibiljet صَحيفَه، وُرَيْقَه، كُرّاسَه брошура folheto leták, prospekt das Flugblatt brochure; pjece φυλλάδιοfolleto lendleht, reklaamleht برگه اعلامیه lehtinen prospectusעלון पर्चा listić, letak szórólap selebaran bæklingur depliant, volantino たれ板 (광고용) 전단 lapelis skrejlapa risalah brochureflygeblad, brosjyreulotka معلوماتۍ پاڼه folheto prospect, pliant листовка leták letak letak flygblad, reklamlapp, broschyr ใบปลิว kitapçık, b...
    etc
24. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
    countable, uncountable
25. having many leaves. a leafy plant. blaarryk كَثير الأوراق листат frondoso listnatý Blatt-... bladrig με πλούσιο φύλλωμα frondoso, con muchas hojas leherohke پر شاخ و برگ lehtevä feuillu מָלֵא עָלִים पत्ते वाली lisnat leveles rimbun laufskrÿddur frondoso, 葉の多い 잎이 많은 lapuotas lapains berdaun lebat bladerrijk blad-/løvrik pokryty obficie liśćmi ډيرى پاڼۍ او خاښى لرونكۍ folhudo cu (multe) frunze густо покрытый листьями listnatý listnat lisnat lövrik, lummig มีใบมาก yapraklı 多葉的 вкритий листям بہت...
26. to begin a new and better way of behaving, working etc. 'n nuwe blad omslaan يَبْدأ صَفْحَةً جديدَه отгръщам страницата virar a página načít nový list ein neues Leben anfangen vende et nyt blad κάνω μια καινούργια αρχή, γυρίζω σελίδα (μτφ.) hacer borrón y cuenta nueva uut lehekülge pöörama از نو شروع کردن aloittaa uusi elämä changer de conduite לִפתוֹחַ דַף חָדָש जीवन का नया अध्याय प्रारंभ करना, अपना रंग-ढ़ग सुधारना, बदलना okrenuti novi list új életet kezd memulai lagi snúa við blaðinu voltar...
    etc
27. In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
    countable, uncountable
28. hoja.
29. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
    countable, uncountable
30. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
    countable, uncountable
31. Cannabis.
    slang, uncountable
32. A Canadian person.
    Internet, countable, humorous, pejorative, sometimes, uncountable
33. A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.”

“Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.”

“gold leaf”

“Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]”

“The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.”

“The bridge shear locks were repaired and the long ends of the shear locks shortened about two inches to eliminate butting of the bridge leafs against each other.”

“It will be noted that the pivotal mounting of the cylinders is such that the cylinders have their greatest leverage (i.e., exert the greatest door-opening force) when the door leafs 24, 28 are closed because the cylinders are generally perpendicular to the closed leafs. This is desirable because the load on the leafs is the greatest when they are closed due to air pressure. As the leafs begin to open and this air pressure decreases, the opening force exerted by the cylinders on the door leafs decreases and the opening speed of the leafs increases.”

“THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE U.S. COAST GUARD: REQUIRE OWNERS/OPERATORS OF BASCULE BRIDGES TO INSTALL CAUTION LIGHTS AND DAYLIGHT MARKINGS AT ELEVATION POINTS ON BRIDGE LEAFS WHERE THEY PROTRUDE OVER NAVIGABLE CHANNELS TO IDEN TIFY^([sic]) TO MARINERS THE POINT AT WHICH FULL SKYWARD CHANNEL CLEARANCE IS NOT AVAILABLE TO TRANSITING VESSELS: THE LIGHTS SHOULD ACTIVATE WHEN THE BRIDGELEAFS ARE IN THE NORMAL FULLY OPEN POSITION.[…]THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE U.S. COAST GUARD: REQUIRE THAT BRIDGE OWNERS/OPERATORS PROVIDE IN BASCULE BRIDGE PERMIT APPLICATIONS THE ANGLE OF THE BRIDGELEAF(S). THE MAXIMUM VERTICAL CLEARANCE AT THE FENDERS AND AT THE BRIDGELEAF ENDS, AND THE EXTENT OF HORIZONTAL CHANNEL CLEARANCE OVER WHICH FULL SKYWARD CLEARANCE IS AVAILABLE WHEN THE BRIDGE LEAFS ARE IN THE FULLY OPEN POSITION.”

“The four separate segments of the movable bridge span, known as bridge leafs, were alternately rehabilitated while maintaining upper-level roadway and pedestrian traffic on one-half of the bridge and waterway traffic on one-half of the river channel.”

“The hydraulic system lifts and rotates two 413-ft (126-m) bridge leafs, each weighing 7,500 tons, in just four minutes.”

“Note the Art Deco-style sculptures on the wall of the bridge house showing a ship passing under the raised bridge leafs.”

“Like I’ve said, John, you’ve got to get the two bridge leafs to come down very slowly to a complete stop in order to trigger the tongue locks. This is what holds the two leafs of the bridge firmly in place. Otherwise, the bridge leafs will start bouncing, and once they start bouncing, you’ll never stop them from goin’ straight up in the air.”

“The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).”

“X86_FEATURE_HETERO_CORE_TOPOLOGY is used to identify whether the processor support heterogeneous core type by reading CPUID leaf Fn_0x80000026_EAX and bit 30. if the bit is set as one, then amd_pstate driver will check EBX 30:28 bits to get the core type.”

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