(countable, uncountable) The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
(countable, uncountable) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
(countable, uncountable) Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
(countable, uncountable) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
(countable, uncountable) A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
(countable, uncountable) One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
(countable, in-plural, uncountable) Tea leaves.
(countable, uncountable) A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
(countable, uncountable) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
(countable, uncountable) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
(countable, uncountable) The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
(countable, uncountable) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
(slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
(Internet, countable, humorous, pejorative, sometimes, uncountable) A Canadian person.
(countable, uncountable) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.

(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
(informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.

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