Leaf vs. Leave

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

(in the plural) Tea leaves.

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

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

Leafnoun

(slang) Marijuana.

Leafverb

(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

Leafverb

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

Leafnoun

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

Leafnoun

A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.

Leafnoun

Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end;

Leafverb

To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

Leafnoun

the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

Leafnoun

a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

Leafnoun

hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

Leafverb

look through a book or other written material;

Leafverb

turn over pages;

Leafverb

produce leaves, of plants

Leaf

A leaf (plural leaves) is the principal lateral appendage of the vascular plant stem, usually borne above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. The leaves, stem, flower and fruit together form the shoot system.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.

Leaveverb

To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

Leaveverb

To cause, to result in.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

Leaveverb

To depart; to separate from.

Leaveverb

To let be or do without interference.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

Leaveverb

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

Leaveverb

To transfer something.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

Leaveverb

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

Leaveverb

To remain (behind); to stay.

Leaveverb

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

Leaveverb

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

Leaveverb

To produce leaves or foliage.

Leaveverb

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

Leavenoun

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

Leavenoun

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Leavenoun

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Leavenoun

Permission.

Leavenoun

(dated) Farewell, departure.

Leaveverb

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

Leaveverb

To raise; to levy.

Leaveverb

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

Leaveverb

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

Leaveverb

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

Leaveverb

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

Leaveverb

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

Leaveverb

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

Leaveverb

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

Leaveverb

to cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

Leaveverb

To depart; to set out.

Leaveverb

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Leavenoun

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

Leavenoun

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

Leavenoun

the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Leavenoun

permission to do something;

Leavenoun

the act of departing politely;

Leaveverb

go away from a place;

Leaveverb

go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Leaveverb

act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leaveverb

leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Leaveverb

move out of or depart from;

Leaveverb

make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Leaveverb

result in;

Leaveverb

remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Leaveverb

put into the care or protection of someone;

Leaveverb

leave or give by will after one's death;

Leaveverb

have left or have as a remainder;

Leaveverb

be survived by after one's death;

Leaveverb

tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leaveverb

leave behind unintentionally;

Leaveverb

go away from

Leaveverb

depart from permanently

Leaveverb

cease attending (a school or college) or working for (an organization)

Leaveverb

allow or cause to remain

Leaveverb

remain to be used or dealt with

Leaveverb

go away from a place without taking (someone or something)

Leaveverb

abandon (a spouse or partner)

Leaveverb

have as (a surviving relative) after one's death

Leaveverb

bequeath (property) to a person or other beneficiary by a will

Leaveverb

cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

Leaveverb

let (someone) do or deal with something without offering help or assistance

Leaveverb

cause to remain as a trace or record

Leaveverb

deposit or entrust to be kept, collected, or attended to

Leaveverb

entrust a decision, choice, or action to (someone else, especially someone considered better qualified)

Leaveverb

(of a plant) put out new leaves

Leavenoun

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

Leavenoun

time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

Leavenoun

permission