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leaf

noun
/liːf/

Etymology

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“to cut off”). Cognates Cognate with Scots leaf (“leaf”), Yola laafe (“leaf”), North Frisian luuf (“leaf”), Saterland Frisian Loof (“leaf”), West Frisian leaf (“leaf”), Cimbrian loap (“leaf”), Dutch loof (“foliage”), German Laub (“leaves”), German Low German Loov (“leaf”), Luxembourgish Laf (“foliage, leaves”), Mòcheno lap (“leaf”), Vilamovian łaub, łaup, łojp (“leaf”), Danish løv (“leaf”), Faroese leyv (“leaf”), Icelandic lauf (“leaf”), Norwegian Bokmål lauv, løv (“leaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk lauv (“leaf”), Swedish löf, löv (“leaf”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs, “leaf”); also Irish luibh (“herb, plant”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Lithuanian lúobas (“bark; bast”), Polish łub (“bark”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”). (Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

  1. inherited from *laubą✻ — “leaf”
  2. inherited from *laub✻
  3. inherited from lēaf
  4. inherited from leef

Definitions

  1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most…

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

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

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

  3. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

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

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

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

      • gold leaf

    3. One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel,…

      One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.

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

    4. Tea leaves.

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

    6. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also…

      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.
      • 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.

    7. In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

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

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

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

    10. Cannabis.

    11. A Canadian person.

    12. A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction

      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.

    13. To produce leaves

      To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

      • Then flowered the mead, then leafed all 'Twas caused by the runic lay.

    14. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

      • The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

    15. To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.

    16. A surname from Old English.

    17. A member of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, its organization, or its supporters.

    18. A model of car built by Nissan, with a name chosen for its green connotations.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at leaf. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at leaf. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at leaf

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA