A whole baked block of bread, still in one piece, before anyone has cut it. Not a roll, not a slice — one solid shaped lump that came out of the oven as a single thing, and that you will later cut across into slices. The picture holds two ideas at once: baked into one block, and meant to be cut up.
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原始詞典資料8 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。
loafnoun詞源 1/ləʊf/
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A block of bread after baking.
- Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
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Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
- sugar-loaf
- 3
A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
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cellular-automatacomputingengineeringA particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
- It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.
- Running a LWSS into it can produce various debris. One of these reactions produces a loaf. When the loaf is properly hit with other LWSSs, it can be pulled backwards.
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slanginformalA catloaf.
loafverb詞源 1/ləʊf/
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slangTo headbutt
loafverb詞源 2/ləʊf/
- 1
To do nothing, to be idle.
- loaf about, loaf around
- 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text They don’t (often) kill other animals, they probably form monogamous pairs, and we know they share parental care of chicks, and loaf and bathe in large, congenial groups.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- loaf of bread
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