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Palavra Inglês do Dia

leaf



folha
folha


Definições

inglês > português
leaf
     1. Substantivo. folha
inglês > inglês
leaf
     1. n. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
     2. n. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
     3. n. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
           gold leaf
     4. n. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
     5. n. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
     6. n. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
     7. n. 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.
     8. n. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
     9. n. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
     10. n. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
     11. n. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
     12. v. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
     13. v. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
           The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
português > inglês
folha
     1. n-f. (botany) leaf
     2. n-f. sheet (of paper)
     3. v. verb form of folhar

Exemplos

He was going to turn over a new leaf.
South wind examines the leaf closely.
Racist posters cover the walls and there is a Canadian flag at the far end of the room with a black swastika painted over the maple leaf.
Leaf and stem scents fall into groups that include turpentine, mint, sulphur or aromatic.



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