Leaf

[liːf] or [lif]

解釋/意思:

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

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

(noun.) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.

(verb.) produce leaves, of plants.

(verb.) turn over pages; 'leaf through a book'; 'leaf a manuscript'.

整理:洛厄尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

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

編輯:瑞伊

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Blade.

錄入:里基

解釋/意思:

n. one of the lateral organs developed from the stem or axis of the plant below its growing-point: anything beaten thin like a leaf: two pages of a book: one side of a window-shutter &c.:—pl. Leaves (lēvz).—v.i. to shoot out or produce leaves:—pr.p. leaf′ing; pa.p. leafed.—ns. Leaf′age leaves collectively: abundance of leaves: season of leaves or leafing; Leaf′-bridge a form of drawbridge in which the rising leaf or leaves swing vertically on hinges; Leaf′-bud a bud producing a stem with leaves only; Leaf′iness; Leaf′-in′sect an orthopterous insect of family Phasmid the wing-covers like leaves.—adj. Leaf′less destitute of leaves.—ns. Leaf′let a little leaf a tract; Leaf′-met′al metal especially alloys imitating gold and silver in very thin leaves for decoration; Leaf′-mould earth formed from decayed leaves used as a soil for plants; Leaf′-stalk the petiole supporting the leaf.—adj. Leaf′y full of leaves.—Take a leaf out of one's book (see Book); Turn over a new leaf to take up a new and better course of conduct.

整理:理查德