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Definition: LEAVES |
LEAVESNoun1. Pl. of Leaf. Plural1. Of Leaf |
Date "LEAVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of leaves, denotes happiness and wonderful improvement in your business. Withered leaves, indicate false hopes and gloomy forebodings will harass your spirit into a whirlpool of despondency and loss. If a young woman dreams of withered leaves, she will be left lonely on the road to conjugality. Death is sometimes implied. If the leaves are green and fresh, she will come into a legacy and marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Statistics | Horizontal axis of display containing the trailing digits. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A leaf is a plant structure or organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the chloroplast containing cells (chlorenchyma) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues. Leaves are also the sites in most plants where respiration, transpiration, and guttation take place. Leaves can store food and water, and are modified in some plants for other purposes.
A structurally complete leaf of an angiosperm consists of a petiole (leaf stem), a lamina (leaf blade), and stipules (small processes located to either side of the base of the petiole). Not all species produce leaves with all of these parts. In some species, stipules are not obvious; or a petiole may be absent. The blade is not always laminar (flattened). External leaf characteristics (shape, margins, hairs, etc.) are important for identifying plant species. The point at which the petiole attaches to the plant stem is called the leaf axil.
Leaves are normally colored green, which comes from the chlorophyll found in plastids in the chlorenchyma. Leaves in Temperate, Boreal, and seasonally dry zones may be seasonally deciduous (falling off or dying for the inclement season). In cold autumns they sometimes turn yellow, bright orange or red as various accessory pigments (carotenoids and anthocyanins) are revealed when the tree responds to cold and reduced sunlight by curtailing chlorophyll production.
Fallen leaf of a maple. Note areas where chlorophyll (green) has been destroyed now show yellow pigmentation
Leaf Structure
A leaf typically consists of the following tissues:
- An epidermis that covers the upper and lower surfaces;
- An interior chlorenchyma called the mesophyll;
- and veins
Epidermis
The epidermis is the outer layer of cells covering the leaf blade. The layer is usually transparent (cells lack chloroplasts) and coated on the outer surface with a waxy cuticle that prevents water loss. The cuticle may be thinner on the lower epidermis than on the upper epidermis; and is thicker on leaves from dry climates as compared with those from wet climates.The epidermis is covered with pores called stomata (sing., stoma) that enable oxygen and carbon dioxide to move in and out of the leaf. These pores are more numerous over the lower epidermis than the upper epidermis in most leaves. Water vapor also passes out of the stomata during transpiration. To conserve water, the stomata may close up during the night.
Hairs grow out from the epidermis in many species.
Mesophyll
Most of the interior of the leaf between the upper and lower layers of epidermis is a parenchyma or chlorenchyma tissue called the mesophyll. This is the primary photosynthetic tissue of the plant. It is divided into two layers: an upper palisade layer of tightly packed, vertically elongated cells, one to two cells thick. Beneath the palisade layer is the spongy layer. The cells of the spongy layer are more rounded and not so tightly packed. The pores or stomata of the epidermis open into the spaces between the spongy layer cells.
Veins
The veins are the vascular tissue of the leaf and are located in the spongy layer of the mesophyll. The veins are made up of xylem, which brings water from the stem into the leaf, and phloem, which usually moves sap out, the latter containing the glucose produce by photosynthesis in the leaf. The xylem typically lies over the phloem, and both are embedded in a dense parenchyma with usually some structural collenchyma tissue present.
The leaves on this plant are arranged in pairs
opposite one another (decussate) along the red stem.
Note developing buds in the axils of these leaves.
Larger version
Leaf Types, Arrangements, and Forms
Leaves may be classified in many different ways, and the type is usually characteristic of a species, although some species produce more than one type of leaf.
- Basic types:
- Fern fronds.
- Gymnosperm leaves: typically needle-, awl-, or scale-shaped.
- Angiosperm (flowering plant) leaves: standard form includes stipules, petiole, and lamina.
- Microphyll leaves.
- Sheath leaves (type found in most grasses).
- Specialized leaves.
- Arrangement on the stem
- Alternate — leaf attachments singular at nodes, and alternate direction up the stem.
- Opposite — leaf attachments paired at each node; decussate if, as typical, each pair is rotated 90o going along the stem.
- Whorled — three or more leaves attach at each point or node on the stem. Note: opposite leaves appear whorled near tip of stem.
- Rosulate — leaves form a rosette.
Leaves of the Norway Spruce (Picea abies)
are needle-shaped and the arrangement
is whorled
- Divisions of the lamina (blade):
- Simple leaves have an undivided blade. The leaf shape may have deeply divided lobes, but the gaps between lobes do not reach to the vein.
- Compound leaves have divided blades, each leaflet separeted along a main or secondary vein.
- Palmately compound leaves have the leaflets radiating from the end of the petiole.
- Pinnately compound leaves have the leaflets arranged along the main or mid-vein (called a rachis in this case).
- Bipinnately compound leaves are twice divided: the leaflets arranged along a secondary vein that is one of several branching off the rachis.
- Characteristics of the petiole
- Petiolated leaves have a petiole.
- In peltate leaves, the petiole attaches to the blade inside from the blade margin.
- Sessile leaves do not have a petiole; the blade attaches directly to the stem.
- Arrangement of the veins (venation)
- Parallel-veined — veins run parallel most the length of the leaf.
- Pinnate-netted — leaf has usually one main vein (called the mid-vein), with smaller veins branching off, usually somewhat parallel to each other.
- Palmate-netted — several main veins diverge from near the leaf base where the petiole attaches.
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Adaptations
In order to survive in a harsh environment, leaves can adapt in the following ways:See Also: Vernation
- Hairy leaf surface to lessen water loss
- Waxy leaf surface to prevent water loss
- Small, shiny leaves to deflect the sun's rays
- Thicker leaves to store water
- Spines instead of leaves (e.g. cactus)
- Leaves to trap insects (e.g. pitcher plant)
Leaf is another word for page (of a book), hence the word 'overleaf', over the page.
See also leaf node (computer science).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leaf."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In graph theory, a tree is a graph in which any two vertices are connected by exactly one path. A forest is a graph in which any two vertices are connected by at most one path. Each forest is a disjoint union of trees (hence the name).
Definitions
An undirected simple graph G is a tree if it satisfies one (and therefore all) of the following equivalent conditions:
If G has finitely many vertices, say n of them, then the above statements are also equivalent to:
- G is connected and has no simple cycles
- G has no simple cycles and, if any edge is added to G, then a simple cycle is formed
- G is connected and, if any edge is removed from G, then it is not connected anymore
- Any two vertices in G can be connected by a unique simple path.
An undirected simple graph G is called a forest if it has no simple cycles.
- G is connected and has n-1 edges
- G has no simple cycles and has n-1 edges
Example
The example tree shown to the right has 6 vertices and 6-1=5 edges. The unique simple path connecting the vertices 2 and 6 is 2-4-5-6.
Facts
Every tree is planar and bipartite.
Every connected graph G admits a spanning tree, which is a tree that contains every vertex of G and whose edges are edges of G.
Given n different vertices, there are nn-2 different ways to connect them to make a tree. No closed formula for the number t(n) of trees with n vertices up to graph isomorphism is known. However, the asymptotic behavior of t(n) is known: there are numbers α≈3 and β≈0.5 such that
Types of Trees
See also Tree structure.
- Free tree
- Rooted tree
- Ordered tree
- Binary tree
- Full binary tree
- Positional tree
- Empty tree
- K-ary tree
- Charles' tree
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tree (graph theory)."
Synonym: LEAVESSynonym: Foliage. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into, perstringe; skim; (neglect); take a cursory view of. |
Condiment | Pot herbs, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, marjoram. |
Learning | Read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves. |
Oracle | Noun: oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer; interpreter. |
Punctuality | Phrase: touch and go, not a minute too soon, in the nick of time, just under the wire, get on board before the train leaves the station. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LEAVES |
| English words defined with "LEAVES": Tern leaves ♦ Vertical leaves. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LEAVES": Gold Leaves ♦ Leaves without Figs ♦ Sibylline Leaves. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LEAVES": Spicknel. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Jim, just wait till she leaves. (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) Would you like me to wipe the leaves of your fichus tree (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) One man's life touches so many others, when he's not there it leaves an awfully big hole (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra. based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.) Think about ither mothers death leaves her disturbed and hostile in a cruel and inhumane world (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) | |
Lyrics | In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze (Top Of The World; performing artist: Carpenters) And leaves the scene (Misled; performing artist: Celine Dion) Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio) Romance and all its strategy leaves me battling with my pride (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill) I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves (Babylon; performing artist: David Gray) | |
Clever | No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory. (references; author: unknown) A wise person escapes temptation and leaves no forwarding address. (references; author: unknown) He that lets the small things bind him leaves the great undone behind him. (references; author: unknown) A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. (references; author: unknown) Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Yellow arrows frilled with reefed leaves are rarely light. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tale of Two Leaves and a Bud (1971) Autumn Leaves (1956) Tea Leaves in the Wind (1938) Sam Small Leaves Town (1937) George Leaves Home (1927) | |
Song Titles | Leaves That Are Green (performing artist: Simon & Garfunkel) | |
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 | Pictured is a Mormon grandmother and granddaughter outside and smiling. The grandmother is carrying the child "piggy-back" and is holding some leaves. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | From an overhead angle, a peach, a nectarine, a cherry tomato and a plum sit on a green marble table garnished with a stem of green leaves. The script text in the lower third reads: "Include 2-3 servings of fruit each day". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" August 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Leaves in threes characterize poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans. This plant is common in the eastern United States. Credit: CDC. |  | Wyeomyia larvae have comb scales like the Orthopodomyia larvae, but the median ventral brush is lacking. Members of this genus breed in water held by the leaves of plants. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Petals" by Katherine Brandl. The symplectic leaves associated with a Poisson bracket, used to describe the primitive spectra of certain algebras. |  | Carving initials and messages in these type of leaves is popular among locals. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Fall leaves lining a Patuxent River beach. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Glacier Bay - outwash from stream leaves steep gravelly deltaic deposit. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Looking back at the trail as the expedition leaves the Trans- Antarctic Mountains on the last 300 miles to the South Pole. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Dixon Bay, a close up of oiled Spartina alterniflora, emulsion and browned leaves. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Fall leaves" by David Daugherty Commentary: "Beautiful gum tree during Autumn in Dallas, Texas 2003 ." | "Leaves" by Mm Moita Commentary: "Green plant." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His will (plans). |
Byron | A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. |
Edmund Burke | War never leaves where it found a nation. |
Euripides | Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves. |
George Macdonald | I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. |
John Dryden | And leaves the private conscience for the guide. |
Niccolo Machiavelli | One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. |
William Penn | Passion is a sort of fever of the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And therefore a king governing in a settled kingdom, leaves to be a king, and degenerates into a tyrant, as soon as he leaves off to rule according to his laws. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | We by no means intend to abolish this personal appropriation of the products of labour, an appropriation that is made for the maintenance and reproduction of human life, and that leaves no surplus wherewith to command the labour of others. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Bavon at Ghent, now in the Berlin Museum; (2) The leaves of the triptych of the Last Supper, painted by Dierick Bouts, formerly in the Church of St. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | So they set to work and fanned her with bunches of leaves, till she had to beg them to leave off, it blew her hair about so. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The leaves of the trees along the Mardyke were astir and whispering in the sunlight |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The sun cleared the fruit trees now and the grape leaves were golden green on the vines |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Yet the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You will feel better afterwards when the air leaves your colon. (references) | |
Bile, a substance that helps digest fat, leaves the liver through these ducts. (references) | ||
The trails of clues that Alzheimer's leaves in its wake have so far not converged. (references) | ||
Business | Documents should be forwarded the same day the shipment leaves the factory or point of origin. (references) | |
Graduation from the Uyghur school system leaves Uyghurs poorly educated, with an inadequate command of the Chinese language. (references) | ||
The market players’ opinion is that the Telecommunications Liberalization Plan leaves ambiguity in the liberalization process. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | The law stipulates that a Jerusalem resident loses the right of residence if he or she leaves Israeli territory for more than 7 years, acquires the nationality of another country, or acquires permanent residence in another country. (references) |
Economic History | Denmark | Tax and duties are not payable until cargo leaves the Free Port. (references) |
Bolivia | Parallel efforts were undertaken by the police to interdict the smuggling of coca leaves, cocaine, and precursor chemicals. (references) | |
Political Economy | VENEZUELA | However, the law leaves the Executive Branch significant discretionary power in granting contracts. (references) |
Kazakhstan | A June 2000 law allows the President to maintain certain policy prerogatives and a seat on the National Security Council after he leaves office. (references) | |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Employers have the option to petition against any foreign employee who leaves his job without fulfilling the terms of his contract for a 6-month ban from the work force. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mexico | However, in practice, women more often were put forward as substitute candidates who have little chance of serving unless the titular candidate leaves office. (references) |
Trade | Hungary | Furthermore, the absence of a prior notice or review period often leaves companies with little opportunity to influence the outcome or plan ahead. (references) |
Bahamas | Goods may be cleared through Customs without a proper invoice if the importer leaves a deposit (usually double the estimated duty) and agrees to present an invoice at a later time. (references) | |
Travel | Denmark | Unlike in the United States, men do not stand when a woman enters or leaves a room. (references) |
Nicaragua | This deposit is returned when the item leaves the country (must be within six months of entry). (references) | |
Philippines | The cash bond ensures that the items will be brought back by the traveler when he leaves the country. (references) | |
Women | Cameroon | The lack of a national legal code covering the family leaves women defenseless against male-oriented customs. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | When her husband dies, the widow either remains with his family in a dependent, marginalized position or she returns the dowry and leaves with nothing. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Belgium | The agreement also provides extended leaves of absence for parental reasons. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rosemary Altea | Well, we leave this earth playing the spirit, the etheric body leaves the physical body and is able to travel through time and space to that place we call heaven. Whatever that place is. |
Rush Limbaugh | The Media Pushes CFR Out of Selfishness and Greed CFR leaves the media the final arbiter and with the vast majority of the power when it comes to political speech, because they will not be affected at all by the ban, since they don't charge themselves. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | But his imagination is wild and extravagant, escapes incessantly from every restraint of reason and taste, and, in the course of its vagaries, leaves a tract of thought as incoherent and eccentric, as is the course of a meteor through the sky. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | That article which leaves it in the power of the legislature to ascertain its own emolument is one to which I allude. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The amount paid into the Treasury by the purchasers of the public lands sold is not yet equal to the sums paid for the whole, but leaves a small balance to be refunded. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | This administration leaves to its successor a world in better condition than we found. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it. |
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| "LEAVES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 57.48% of the time. "LEAVES" is used about 5,269 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 57.48% | 3,029 | 3,093 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 42.5% | 2,240 | 3,934 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,269 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "LEAVES": alternate leaves ♦ bay leaves ♦ fall of the leaves ♦ get on board before the train leaves the station ♦ grape leaves ♦ green leaves ♦ involute rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud having margins rolled inward ♦ Leaves of proposition ♦ loose leaves ♦ Plant Leaves ♦ Premorse leaves ♦ shed leaves ♦ sprout new leaves ♦ strip of leaves ♦ stuffed grape leaves ♦ stuffed leaves ♦ tea leaves ♦ Tern leaves ♦ that leaves me cold! ♦ turn over the leaves ♦ vertical leaves. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LEAVES": fig-leaves, ivy-leaves, tea-leaves. | |
Containing "LEAVES": almond-leaves willow, holly-leaves barberry. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LEAVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vertrek (absent onself, chamber, depart, departure, go away, leave, room). (various references) | |
Albanian | fleta. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | листопад (fall of the leaves). (various references) | |
Chinese | 离开 (Departure, Deserted, Deserting, leaving). (various references) | |
Danish | blade. (various references) | |
Dutch | weergave van de minst significante digits, vertrekt (departs). (various references) | |
Farsi | صورت جمع کلمهfael . (various references) | |
Finnish | lehdet, lähtee. (various references) | |
Flemish | vertrekt. (various references) | |
French | feuilles. (various references) | |
French Canadian | part. (various references) | |
Galician | sae (it leaves). (various references) | |
German | Blätter (blades, foliage, frondage, pock, sheets), laub (foliage, frondage, greenery). (various references) | |
Greek | φύλλα (piles). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zöld (kártyában) (spade). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fer (goes/leaves). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dedaunan, daun-daunan (foliage). (various references) | |
Italian | parte (direction, faction, it leaves, moiety, part, Parthian, piece, portion, quarter, rake off, rate, role, section, segment, share, side, whack), foglie, fogliame (foliage, leaf, leafage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 枯れ葉 (dead leaf, dry leaves), 朽ち葉 (decayed leaves). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | らくよう (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, setting sun, shedding leaves), かれは (dead leaf, dry leaves), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), こうよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, outline, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, uplift, use, utility, yellow leaves), このはのこすれるおと (rustling of leaves), このは (foliage, leaves of trees), こもれび (sunbeams streaming through leaves, sunlight filtering through trees), えだは (foliage, leaves and branches, side issues), わかば (fresh verdure, new leaves), ばんりょく (brute force, myriad green leaves), けいよう (description, display, figure, figure of speech, fly, form, hoist, modifying, qualification, stems and leaves, Tokyo and Chiba), はがくれ (hiding in the leaves), はかぜ (breeze caused by wings flapping, breeze rustling through leaves), はかげ (under theof the leaves), ちまき (cake wrapped in bamboo leaves), ちゃがら (used tea leaves), ちるおちば (falling leaves), あおば (fresh leaves), ひば (cypress leaf, dried daikon leaves, dried leaves, fat horse), おしば (pressed leaves), おちば (defoliation, fallen leaves, leaf litter, shedding leaves), したば (lower leaves, lower teeth), なっぱ (greens, rape leaves), きのは (foliage, leaves of trees), くわつみ (mulberry-leaf pickers, picking mulberry leaves), しようまっせつ (branches and leaves, unessentials, unimportant details), かしわもち (rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves), くちば (decayed leaves), せんちゃ (green tea, tea leaves), さくらゆ (drink made of boiled water poured over preserved cherry leaves and blossoms), うれば (end leaves, last leaves, top leaves), うらうちがみ (end leaves, lining paper), うらば (end leaves, last leaves, top leaves), うらじろ (fern with white-backed leaves), ふきだまり (a drift of snow or leaves, a hangout for drifters, drift), たいせいよう (Atlantic Ocean, opposite leaves), しよう (application, breeding, cotyledon, employment, extremely important, foliage, leaves and branches, method, personal use, private business, raising, remedy, resource, seed leaf, side issues, specification, sublation, trial, use, utilization, way). (various references) | |
Korean | 남긴다. (various references) | |
Manx | drundin tey (used tea leaves). (various references) | |
Norwegian | løv (leaf), blad (leaf, sheet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eaveslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sai, parte (deal, it leaves, lot, parcel, part, Parthian, piece, portion, quantum, quota, role, section, share, snack, suitor), folhas (mulch, mulsh). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | sai, parte (it leaves, part). (various references) | |
Romanian | sarmale (force-meat rolls in cabbage leaves), pleacã (be gone, begone, clear off, go it, it leaves, off with you), frunze alterne (alternate leaves). (various references) | |
Russian | оставлять лист. (various references) | |
Scottish | langadar (seaware with long leaves), bloinigein (any plant with crisped leaves). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | listovi čaja (tea leaves), opadanje lišća (fall of the leaves). (various references) | |
Spanish | las hojas, sale (departs), pl. de leaf, hojas (frondage, top). (various references) | |
Swedish | lämnar (leave, render). (various references) | |
Tagalog | umaalis. (various references) | |
Turkish | yapraklar (foliage, greens, leafage), sayfalar, kalkar. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яapraklamak (be leafy, grow leaves). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coma, comae, comam, comas, folia, frondes, frondibus, frondium, frons. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Otan probalwsin hdh bleponteV af eautwn ginwskete oti hdh egguV to qeroV estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum producunt iam ex se fructum scitis quoniam prope est aestas |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þonne hig wæstm brincgað: ge witun pæt sumor ys gehende; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whanne thei bryngen forth now of hem silf fruyt, ye witen that somer is nyy; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When they shute forth their buddes ye se and knowe of youre awne selves that sommer is then nye at hod. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your ownselves that summer is now nigh at hand. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | When they put out their young leaves, you take note of it, and it is clear to you that summer is coming. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 21, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Inigpanalingsing nila, nan, inyong makita ug masayran nga nagakahiduol na ang ting-init. |
| Chinese | 見 上 節 |
| Croatian | Kad veæ propupaju, i sami vidite i znate: blizu je veæ ljeto. |
| Danish | når de alt springe ud, da se I og skønne af eder selv, at Sommeren nu er nær. |
| Dutch | Wanneer zij nu uitspruiten, en gij dat ziet, zo weet gij uit uzelven, dat de zomer nu nabij is. |
| Finnish | Kun ne jo puhkeavat lehteen, niin siitä te näette ja itsestänne ymmärrätte, että kesä jo on lähellä. |
| French | Dès qu`ils ont poussé, vous connaissez de vous-mêmes, en regardant, que déjà l`été est proche. |
| German | wenn sie jetzt ausschlagen, so sehet ihr's an ihnen und merket, daß jetzt der Sommer nahe ist. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Apabila pucuk-pucuknya mulai kelihatan, kalian tahu bahwa sudah hampir musim panas. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila kamu melihat pohon itu baharu bertunas, kamu sendiri ketahui bahwa musim panas sudah hampir. |
| Italian | quando gia germogliano, guardandoli capite da voi stessi che ormai l'estate è vicina. |
| Latvian | Kad tiem jau augïi metas, tad ziniet, ka vasara tuvu. |
| Maori | I te mea e pihi ana, na ka kite koutou, ka matau noa ake, kua tata te raumati. |
| Norwegian | Så snart de springer ut og I ser det, da vet I av eder selv at nu er sommeren nær. |
| Rumanian | Cknd knfrunzesc, wi -i vedeyi, voi singuri cunoawteyi cq de acum vara este aproape. |
| Russian | ЛПЗДБ ПОЙ ХЦЕ ТБУРХУЛБАФУС, ФП, ЧЙДС ЬФП, ЪОБЕФЕ УБНЙ, ЮФП ХЦЕ ВМЙЪЛП МЕФП. |
| Shuar | Ju nunkanam ni nuké yama punkakmatai "esat jeatemayi" Tátsurmek. |
| Spanish | Cuando veis que ya brotan, vosotros entendéis que el verano ya está cerca. |
| Swahili | Mnapoona kwamba imeanza kuchipua majani, mwatambua kwamba wakati wa kiangazi umekaribia. |
| Swedish | När I fån se att de skjuta knopp, då veten I av eder själva att sommaren redan är nära. |
| Uma | Ane nihilo-damo mela' -mi rau-na, ni'inca-mi ka'uma-napi mahae mara eo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LEAVES": cleaves, cloverleaves, deleaves, endleaves, flyleaves, interleaves, leatherleaves, longleaves, shinleaves, sleaves. (additional references) | |
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"LEAVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alavesa, Bleaval, eleves, geaves, Gleaves, Leavasa, leavce, leavel, Leavism, leavs, Lecanvey, Leeves, leices, leovic, Lesvos, leves, Liabes, Libavius, Lukavac, neaves, sleaves, teaves. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LEAVES" (pronounced lē"vz) |
| 4 | l ē" v z | believes, cleaves, relieves, sleeves. |
| 3 | -ē" v z | achieves, eaves, Eves, Greaves, grieves, heaves, misperceives, Neves, peeves, perceives, reaves, receives, recitatives, Reeves, retrieves, sheaves, steeves, thieves, weaves. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sleave. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-s-v" | |
-1 letter: easel, eaves, elves, laves, lease, leave, salve, selva, slave, vales, valse, veals. | |
-2 letters: alee, ales, aves, ease, eave, eels, else, eves, lase, lave, lavs, leas, lees, leva, sale, save, seal, seel, vale, vase, veal, vees, vela. | |
-3 letters: ale, als, ave, eel, els, eve, las, lav, lea, lee, lev, sae, sal, sea, see, sel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-s-v" | |
+1 letter: cleaves, enslave, laveers, leavens, leavers, reveals, selvage, several, sleaved, sleaves, vakeels, vealers. | |
+2 letters: alewives, aversely, behalves, beslaved, cervelas, cleavers, deleaves, devalues, elatives, elevates, enclaves, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, evangels, exclaves, haverels, leaviest, loveseat, oversale, ravelers, revalues, reversal, salvagee, saveable, selvaged, selvages, servable, severals, slavered, slaverer, valences, vaselike, vealiest, vesperal, waveless, wavelets. | |
+3 letters: adversely, aliveness, cervelats, chevalets, cleavages, crevalles, devisable, elevateds, elevators, eluviates, endleaves, enslavers, evaluates, evasively, evenfalls, flyleaves, graveless, kalewives, lavenders, levanters, levatores, leverages, levigates, levirates, levitates, lifesaver, loveseats, medievals, moveables, overlades, overleaps, oversales, overscale, overzeals, ravellers, relatives, revealers, reversals, reviewals, revisable, salvagees, severable, severally, severalty, slaverers, slaveries, travelers, valencies, valerates, valueless, valveless, valvelets, velarizes, vendables, verglases, vernacles, versatile, vesiculae, vesperals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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