Leaf vs. Meat

Leaf and Meat Definitions
Leaf
A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.
Meat
The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.
Leaf
A leaflike organ or structure.
Meat
The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.
Leaf
Leaves considered as a group; foliage.
Meat
The essence, substance, or gist
The meat of the editorial.
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Leaf
The state or time of having or showing leaves
Trees in full leaf.
Meat
(Slang) Something that one enjoys or excels in; a forte
Tennis is his meat.
Leaf
The leaves of a plant used or processed for a specific purpose
Large supplies of tobacco leaf.
Meat
Nourishment; food
"Love is not all.
Leaf
Any of the sheets of paper bound in a book, each side of which constitutes a page.
Meat
The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.
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Leaf
A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.
Meat
The genitals.
Leaf
Such leaves considered as a group
Covered in gold leaf.
Meat
(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
Leaf
A hinged or removable section for a table top.
Meat
(countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
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Leaf
A hinged or otherwise movable section of a folding door, shutter, or gate.
Meat
Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
Leaf
A section of drawbridge that moves upward or to the side.
Meat
A type of food, a dish.
Leaf
One of several metal strips forming a leaf spring.
Meat
(archaic) A meal.
Leaf
To produce leaves; put forth foliage
Trees just beginning to leaf.
Meat
(obsolete) Meal; flour.
Leaf
To turn pages, as in searching or browsing
Leafed through the catalog.
Meat
(uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
Leaf
To turn through the pages of.
Meat
(slang) A penis.
Leaf
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
Meat
(colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.
Leaf
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
Meat
(sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
Leaf
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Meat
(slang) A meathead.
Throw it in here, meat.
Leaf
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
Gold leaf
Meat
(Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
Leaf
Two pages.
Meat
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.
Leaf
(in the plural) Tea leaves.
Meat
The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
Leaf
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
Meat
Dinner; the chief meal.
Leaf
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.
Meat
To supply with food.
His shield well lined, his horses meated well.
Leaf
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
Meat
The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
Leaf
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
Meat
The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;
Black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell
Leaf
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
Meat
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story
Leaf
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
Leaf
Cannabis.
Leaf
A Canadian person.
Leaf
(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
Leaf
(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
Leaf
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
Leaf
A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
Leaf
Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end;
They were both determined to turn over a new leaf.
Leaf
To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
Leaf
The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
Leaf
A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
Leaf
Hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
Leaf
Look through a book or other written material;
He thumbed through the report
She leafed through the volume
Leaf
Turn over pages;
Leaf through a book
Leaf a manuscript
Leaf
Produce leaves, of plants