【leaf】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

词源(Etymology)

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”) (compare West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)^[1] (compare Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”)).

发音(Pronunciation)

• enPR: lēf, IPA^(key): /liːf/

• Audio (US)

• Audio

• Rhymes: -iːf
• Homophone: lief

名词(Noun)

leaf (plural leaves)

1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:

     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.

2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

   gold leaf

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

   Synonym: folium

5. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
6. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
7. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

   The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.

   Hyponym: doorleaf

   Meronym: stile

8. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
9. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
   • 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

     The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

10. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
11. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. (slang) Marijuana.
13. (Internet slang, 4chan) (derogatory) A Canadian person.

衍生词(Derived terms)

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

   The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

同义词(Synonyms)

• leave (verb)

衍生词(Derived terms)

• leafing
• leaf through

翻译(Translations)

查看更多(See also)

• foliage
• frond
• needle

查看更多(Further reading)

• leaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• leaf (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• leaf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• leaf at OneLook Dictionary Search

来源参考(References)

变位词(Anagrams)

• Lafe, alef, feal, flea

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Old English

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /læ͜ɑːf/

词源1(Etymology 1)

From Proto-Germanic *laubō. Cognate with Old High German *louba (German Laube).

名词(Noun)

lēaf f

1. permission

变化形式(Declension)

派生词(Descendants)

• English: leave

词源2(Etymology 2)

From Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą. Cognate with West Frisian leaf, Old Saxon lōf, Old High German loup, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

名词(Noun)

lēaf n

1. leaf
2. page

变化形式(Declension)

派生词(Descendants)

• Middle English: leef, lefe, leve, lewe
  • English: leaf
  • Scots: leaf, lefe, leif
  • Yola: laafe

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Scots

词源(Etymology)

From Old English lēaf.

名词(Noun)

leaf (plural leafs)

1. leaf

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West Frisian

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /lɪə̯f/

词源1(Etymology 1)

From Old Frisian lāf

名词(Noun)

leaf n (plural leaven, diminutive leafke)

1. leaf, especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass

查看更多(Further reading)

• “leaf (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

词源2(Etymology 2)

From Old Frisian liāf

形容词(Adjective)

leaf

1. friendly, kind, cordial

Inflection

Inflection of leaf
uninflected	leaf
inflected	leave
comparative	leaver
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		leaf	leaver	it leafst it leafste
indefinite	c. sing.	leave	leavere	leafste
	n. sing.	leaf	leaver	leafste
	plural	leave	leavere	leafste
definite		leave	leavere	leafste
partitive		leafs	leavers	—

衍生词(Derived terms)

• leafde
• leavehearsbistke

查看更多(Further reading)

• “leaf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011