Leaf vs. Meat
Difference Between Leaf and Meat
Leafnoun
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
Meatnoun
(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.Leafnoun
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
Meatnoun
(countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.Leafnoun
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
gold leafMeatnoun
Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
Leafnoun
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Meatnoun
A type of food, a dish.
Leafnoun
(in the plural) Tea leaves.
Meatnoun
A meal.
Leafnoun
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
Meatnoun
(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.Leafnoun
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.Meatnoun
(slang) A penis.
Leafnoun
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
Meatnoun
(colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor.Leafnoun
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
Meatnoun
(sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
He hit it right on the meat of the bat.Leafnoun
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
Meatnoun
A meathead.
Throw it in here, meat.Leafnoun
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
Meatnoun
(Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
Leafnoun
(slang) Marijuana.
Meatnoun
the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
Leafverb
(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
Meatnoun
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 shellLeafverb
(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.Meatnoun
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
the gist of the prosecutor's argumentthe heart and soul of the Republican Partythe nub of the storyLeafnoun
the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
Leafnoun
a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
Leafnoun
hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
Leafverb
look through a book or other written material;
He thumbed through the reportShe leafed through the volumeLeafverb
turn over pages;
leaf through a bookleaf a manuscriptLeafverb
produce leaves, of plants
