Leaf
noun
A flat green part of a plant or tree.
The tree is shedding its leaves.
Often appears as...
- falling leaf
- leaf shape
noun
A single sheet of paper in a book.
She turned the leaf of the book slowly.
Often appears as...
- page leaf
- book leaf
verb
To turn over pages in a casual or relaxed way.
He was leafing through a magazine.
Often appears as...
- leaf through pages
- leaf through a book
noun
A part of a machine or tool that has a similar shape to a leaf.
The leaf of a folding table can be folded down when not in use.
Often appears as...
- table leaf
- leaf spring
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A flat green part of a plant or tree.
The tree is shedding its leaves.
Often appears as...
- falling leaf
- leaf shape
noun
A single sheet of paper in a book.
She turned the leaf of the book slowly.
Often appears as...
- page leaf
- book leaf
verb
To turn over pages in a casual or relaxed way.
He was leafing through a magazine.
Often appears as...
- leaf through pages
- leaf through a book
noun
A part of a machine or tool that has a similar shape to a leaf.
The leaf of a folding table can be folded down when not in use.
Often appears as...
- table leaf
- leaf spring
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Seasonal Imagery
The word often evokes the change of seasons, especially autumn when leaves fall.
The park was covered with a carpet of colorful autumn leaves.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Growth
Represents vitality and growth in metaphors relating to personal development or businesses.
Their startup company is finally sprouting new leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Descriptions
Use 'leaf' to add detail when describing environments or settings in nature.
Sunlight filtered through the leaves, creating patterns on the ground.
Pro Tip 1/3Seasonal Imagery
The word often evokes the change of seasons, especially autumn when leaves fall.
The park was covered with a carpet of colorful autumn leaves.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Growth
Represents vitality and growth in metaphors relating to personal development or businesses.
Their startup company is finally sprouting new leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Descriptions
Use 'leaf' to add detail when describing environments or settings in nature.
Sunlight filtered through the leaves, creating patterns on the ground.
Pro Tip 1/3Seasonal Imagery
The word often evokes the change of seasons, especially autumn when leaves fall.
The park was covered with a carpet of colorful autumn leaves.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Growth
Represents vitality and growth in metaphors relating to personal development or businesses.
Their startup company is finally sprouting new leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Nature Descriptions
Use 'leaf' to add detail when describing environments or settings in nature.
Sunlight filtered through the leaves, creating patterns on the ground.
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Can you solve the temple...
but all you need is reliable evidence about three of the four paths. The fourth you can figure out using the process of elimination. Of course, none of this matters if you're lucky enough to find the exit yourself, but otherwise, putting everything together leaves you with three possibilities. If each group gives a consistent answer,
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The three different ways...
Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for. A female kangaroo can often simultaneously support one inside her uterus and another in her pouch. In unfavorable conditions,
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It's Not Easy Being...
leaf being green but in reality the green light is really just bouncing off the leaf so in a sense the leaf is really every color in the world except green if that sounds unbelievable we don't blame you but here's the thing reflectance means you will never see the
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Alice Goffman: How we're...
College has some shortcomings. It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt. But all in all, it's a pretty good path. Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends and with a lot of knowledge about the world. And perhaps most importantly,
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The amazing ways plants...
and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle that deters insects and microbes. Some plants go a step further with painful structures to warn would-be predators. Thorns, spines, and prickles discourage bigger herbivores.
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An algorithm for happily...
adulthood now that might sound unlikely but I'm sure all of you can think of friends who are intelligent grown adults who seem to lose all capacity for reason when it comes to their love life and so it can happen to the best of us it leaves us
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How does caffeine keep...
In high doses, as it's found in the leaves and seeds of certain species, it's toxic to insects. But when they consume it in lower doses, as it's found in nectar, it can actually help them remember and revisit flowers.
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Why are there so many...
Take butterflies. In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate to help them grow and spin cocoons. But when they emerge as butterflies, these insects feed only on flower nectar.
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The history of tea -...
But before the poisons could end his life, a leaf drifted into his mouth. He chewed on it and it revived him, and that is how we discovered tea. Or so an ancient legend goes at least.
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Frog Defends Eggs From...
some are now almost ready to hatch there are several clutches on the leaf and those at the top the most recently laid are barely a day
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Can you solve the temple...
but all you need is reliable evidence about three of the four paths. The fourth you can figure out using the process of elimination. Of course, none of this matters if you're lucky enough to find the exit yourself, but otherwise, putting everything together leaves you with three possibilities. If each group gives a consistent answer,
Video examples
The three different ways...
Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for. A female kangaroo can often simultaneously support one inside her uterus and another in her pouch. In unfavorable conditions,
Video examples
It's Not Easy Being...
leaf being green but in reality the green light is really just bouncing off the leaf so in a sense the leaf is really every color in the world except green if that sounds unbelievable we don't blame you but here's the thing reflectance means you will never see the
Video examples
Alice Goffman: How we're...
College has some shortcomings. It's expensive; it leaves young people in debt. But all in all, it's a pretty good path. Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends and with a lot of knowledge about the world. And perhaps most importantly,
Video examples
The amazing ways plants...
and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle that deters insects and microbes. Some plants go a step further with painful structures to warn would-be predators. Thorns, spines, and prickles discourage bigger herbivores.
Video examples
An algorithm for happily...
adulthood now that might sound unlikely but I'm sure all of you can think of friends who are intelligent grown adults who seem to lose all capacity for reason when it comes to their love life and so it can happen to the best of us it leaves us
Video examples
How does caffeine keep...
In high doses, as it's found in the leaves and seeds of certain species, it's toxic to insects. But when they consume it in lower doses, as it's found in nectar, it can actually help them remember and revisit flowers.
Video examples
Why are there so many...
Take butterflies. In their larval caterpillar form, they chomp hungrily through leaves at a rapid rate to help them grow and spin cocoons. But when they emerge as butterflies, these insects feed only on flower nectar.
Video examples
The history of tea -...
But before the poisons could end his life, a leaf drifted into his mouth. He chewed on it and it revived him, and that is how we discovered tea. Or so an ancient legend goes at least.
Video examples
Frog Defends Eggs From...
some are now almost ready to hatch there are several clutches on the leaf and those at the top the most recently laid are barely a day
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Frank Deford
American Writer
If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.
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Jane Fonda
American Actress
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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Leonard Bernstein
American Composer
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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Stanley A. McChrystal
American Footballer
You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars. But if you're a leader, the people you've counted on will help you up. And if you're a leader, the people who count on you need you on your feet.
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Scott Derrickson
American Director
In my personal life, dark material is kind of an emptying out - it leaves more room for light. If I'm writing a particularly awful scene, something is released in the process.
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Pablo Casals
Spanish Musician
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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William Godwin
English Writer
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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Sarah J. Maas
American Author
Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
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Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
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Petra Nemcova
Czechoslovakian Model
It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.
Quote examples
Frank Deford
American Writer
If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.
Quote examples
Jane Fonda
American Actress
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
Quote examples
Leonard Bernstein
American Composer
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Quote examples
Stanley A. McChrystal
American Footballer
You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars. But if you're a leader, the people you've counted on will help you up. And if you're a leader, the people who count on you need you on your feet.
Quote examples
Scott Derrickson
American Director
In my personal life, dark material is kind of an emptying out - it leaves more room for light. If I'm writing a particularly awful scene, something is released in the process.
Quote examples
Pablo Casals
Spanish Musician
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Quote examples
William Godwin
English Writer
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
Quote examples
Sarah J. Maas
American Author
Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
Quote examples
Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
Quote examples
Petra Nemcova
Czechoslovakian Model
It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.
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