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/liːf/
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/lif/
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liːf
Noun
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
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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.
A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
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Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
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A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
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Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
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gold leaf
One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
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Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]
Tea leaves.
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A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
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A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
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The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
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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.
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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.
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
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The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
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One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
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Cannabis.
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A Canadian person.
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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.
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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.
Verb
To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
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Then flowered the mead, then leafed all 'Twas caused by the runic lay.
To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
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The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
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the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
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a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
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hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
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look through a book or other written material
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He thumbed through the report
She leafed through the volume
turn over pages
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leaf through a book
leaf a manuscript
produce leaves, of plants