Leaf | Mean of leaf in English Dictionary

/ˈliːf/

• Noun
• one of the flat and typically green parts of a plant that grow from a stem or twig
1. a maple leaf
2. a tobacco leaf
3. tea leaves
4. I heard the rustle of the autumn leaves.
5. a pile of dead leaves
6. The trees drop their leaves in the fall, and new leaves grow again in the spring.
7. By the end of April, most trees are in leaf. [=most trees have grown their new leaves]
8. The trees have not yet come into leaf.
• a sheet of paper in a book
1. I decided to take/borrow a leaf out of his book [=to do the same thing that he did] and invest some money in the stock market.
• a part that can be added to or removed from a table to change the size of its top surface

• a very thin sheet of metal (such as gold or silver) that is used to decorate something
1. silver leaf
• to start behaving or living in a different and better way
1. I decided to turn over a new leaf and stop worrying so much.
2. The program helps drug addicts to turn over a new leaf when they get out of jail.
• Verb
• to produce leaves
1. The tree will leaf out in the spring.
• to turn the pages of (a book, a magazine, etc.)
1. She was leafing through the magazine, looking at the pictures.