10. leaf to turn pages, esp. quickly (usu. fol. by through): to leaf through a book.
11. (v.t.)leaf to thumb or turn, as the pages of a book or magazine.
Definition of 'leaf'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)leaf, leafage, foliage the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
2. (noun)leaf, folio a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
3. (verb)leaf hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
4. (verb)flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff look through a book or other written material "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
5. (verb)leaf turn over pages "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"
1. (noun)leaf the flat green parts on a plant an oak/geranium/lettuce/ leaf; The leaves turn orange in the Fall.
2. leaf -leafed/-leaved/-leaf having a particular type of leaf broad-leafed plants
Definition of 'leaf'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)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
2. (noun)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
3. (noun)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; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small
4. (verb)leaf to shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May
Sense: a part of a plant growing from the side of a stem, usually green, flat and thin, but of various shapes depending on the plant Many trees lose their leaves in autumn.