Definitions for leaves

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leaves leaves

Spelling: [leevz]

IPA: /livz/

Leaves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in leaves (aeelsv).

Definitions for leaves

noun

1. plural of leaf.
2. one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
3. any similar or corresponding lateral outgrowth of a stem.
4. a petal:
5. leaves collectively; foliage.
6. Bibliography. a unit generally comprising two printed, blank, or illustrated pages of a book, one on each side.
7. a thin sheet of metal:
8. a lamina or layer.
9. a sliding, hinged, or detachable flat part, as of a door or tabletop.
10. a section of a drawbridge.
11. a single strip of metal in a leaf spring.
12. a tooth of a small gear wheel, as of a pinion.
13. leaf fat.
14. Textiles. shaft (def 14).
15. permission to do something:
16. permission to be absent, as from work or military duty:
17. the time this permission lasts:
18. a parting; departure; farewell:
19. Metallurgy. draft (def 23).
20. Bowling. the pin or pins in upright position after the bowl of the first ball.

Idioms

1. in leaf, covered with foliage; having leaves:
2. take a leaf out of / from someone's book, to follow someone's example; imitate:
3. turn over a new leaf, to begin anew; make a fresh start:

Verb phrases

1. leave alone. alone (def 7).
2. leave off, to desist from; cease; stop; abandon. to stop using or wearing: to omit:
3. leave out, to omit; exclude:

verb (used with object)

1. to thumb or turn, as the pages of a book or magazine, in a casual or cursory inspection of the contents.
2. to go out of or away from, as a place:
3. to depart from permanently; quit:
4. to let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc.:
5. to allow to remain in the same place, condition, etc.:
6. to let stay or be as specified:
7. to let (a person or animal) remain in a position to do something without interference:
8. to let (a thing) remain for action or decision:
9. to give in charge; deposit; entrust:
10. to stop; cease; give up:
11. to disregard; neglect:
12. to give for use after one's death or departure:
13. to have remaining after death:
14. to have as a remainder after subtraction:
15. Nonstandard. let1 (defs 1, 2, 6).

verb (used without object)

1. to put forth leaves.
2. to turn pages, especially quickly (usually followed by through):
3. to go away, depart, or set out:
4. to put forth leaves; leaf.

Origin of leaves

before 900; Middle English leef, lef, Old English lēaf; cognate with Dutch loof, German Laub, Old Norse lauf, Gothic laufs

Examples for leaves

This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control.

It leaves the impression that the airplane hit the water and sank whole.

He leaves the prison gates, he makes his way to his old home, but his old home is not there.

Only the heavy stems, which should be cut from the leaves, may be canned.

This leaves people with a history of anorexia and reduced bone density like me at high risk for fractures.

Get her as she leaves, or find her back at her own place later.

But sometimes, the quest for facts lets us down, or leads us astray, and leaves us worse off than before, not better.

He dug a hole and he covered it with branches and leaves and a little grass.

And Margaret would sit in the rocking while he cut the leaves and found the place.

Every single one of them leaves a footprint online, however minor it may be.