Meaning of loaf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A block of bread after baking.
2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
3. Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.
   Cockney, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
5. A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
6. A catloaf.
   informal, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.”

“sugar-loaf”

“use one's loaf”

“It is frequently said of Bertram Wooster that he is a man who can think on his feet, and if the necessity arises he can also use his loaf when on all fours. [...] “Why didn't the idiot tell her not to open it?” “It was his first move. ‘I've found a letter from you here, precious,’ she said. ‘On no account open it, angel,’ he said. So of course she opened it.” She pursed the lips, nodded the loaf, and ate a moody piece of crumpet. “So that's why he's been going about looking like a dead fish.””

“It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.”

“Running a LWSS into it can produce various debris. One of these reactions produces a loaf. When the loaf is properly hit with other LWSSs, it can be pulled backwards.”

“I am looking for the smallest ancestor of the following four loaf pattern in Conway's Game of Life:”

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