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Leaves vs Leases - What's the difference?

leaves | leases |

As verbs the difference between leaves and leases

is that leaves is (leave) while leases is (lease).

As a noun leaves

is or leaves can be .

leaves

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (leave)

    • Statistics

    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    leases

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lease)

    • Anagrams

    *

    lease

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • (chiefly dialectal) to gather.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • false; lying; deceptive
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • falsehood; a lie

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an open pasture or common
  • *1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
  • *:Since as a child I used to lie
  • *:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
  • *:Never, I own, expected I
  • *:That life would all be fair.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To release; let go; unloose.

    • Etymology 6

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
  • To take or hold by lease.
  • To grant a lease; to let or rent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
  • The period of such a contract
  • A leasehold

    • Related terms

    * lessor, lessee

    Etymology 7

    From (leash)

    Noun

  • The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

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