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How to pronounce “leaf”

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Pronunciation guide for leaf

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of leaf with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Tea Talkgoing up into the leaf and bud, always
Definition summary
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

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How to pronounce leaf

Tea Talk

going up into the leaf and bud, always

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “leaf”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  • (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  • Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  • (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
  • A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
  • One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
  • (in the plural) Tea leaves.
  • A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  • (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
  • (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
  • The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
  • One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  • (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
  • (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
  • (programming, x86) A 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.
  • [Verb]
  • (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
  • (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
  • (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.

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