Picture the flat, thin, green blade growing out of a plant. Almost everything else about this word comes from that one shape: something flat and thin like a leaf. A page in a book is a leaf; an add-in panel of a table is a leaf; and two common sayings borrow the book-page image.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料22 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Leafname詞源 1
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A surname from Old English.
Leafnoun詞源 2
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A Canadian person.
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slangA member of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, its organization, or its supporters.
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A model of car built by Nissan, with a name chosen for its green connotations.
leafnoun/liːf/
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The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- 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.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA 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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advertisingartsbookbindingA sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.
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A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- gold leaf
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One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]
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Tea leaves.
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A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
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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.
- The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
- 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.
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computingengineeringmathematicsIn a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
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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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slangCannabis.
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A Canadian person.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA 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.
- 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.
leafverb/liːf/
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To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- Then flowered the mead, then leafed all 'Twas caused by the runic lay.
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To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
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informalTo play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。