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Meat vs Leaf - What's the difference?

meat | leaf |

As nouns the difference between meat and leaf

is that meat is meatus while leaf is the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

As a verb leaf is

to produce leaves; put forth foliage.

meat

English

(wikipedia meat)

Noun

  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:
  • I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate . I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
  • * , II.8:
  • And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat .
  • * 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :
  • Your greatest want is, you want much of meat : / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes.
  • * 1879 , (Silas Hocking),
  • As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat .
  • * 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:
  • The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference.
  • * :
  • And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel // and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w), ch. 8:
  • And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
  • (label) The flesh of an animal used as food.
  • * 2010 , Andy Atkins, The Guardian , 19 October:
  • While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.
  • (label) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
  • (label) A penis.
  • * 1993 , Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies , page 538
  • He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.
  • * 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big , page 54
  • Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
  • * 2011 , Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys , page 41
  • Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
  • (label) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  • (label) The best or most substantial part of something.
  • * 1577 , (Gerald Eades Bentley), The Arte of Angling
  • it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
  • (label) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
  • A meathead.
  • (label) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
  • * 1949 , Oceania , Vol.XX
  • When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
  • * 1973 , M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma
  • Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
  • * 1977 , A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity
  • Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat " (totem) of another group.
  • * 1992 , P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is
  • Our familyusually married the red kangaroo "meat ".
  • * 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
  • That’s a beautiful goanna.. He’s my meat , can’t eat him.

    Usage notes

    The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude (l) and other (l). For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves (l)s also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is (l)).

    Synonyms

    * (l) * See also * (penis) see

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * beat the meat * dead meat * fresh meat * meat and two veg * meat draw * meat hook / meathook * meat pie * meat raffle * meat tray * meat wagon * meatball * meatface * meathead * meatman * meat safe * meaty * sweatmeat

    leaf

    English

    Noun

    (leaves)
  • The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
  • A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
  • A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
  • (in the plural) Tea leaves.
  • A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
  • A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
  • (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
  • (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
  • * 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
  • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf ).
  • The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
  • One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  • Derived terms

    * ) * almond tree leaf skeletoniser moth, ) * aluminium leaf, aluminum leaf * angle leaf * * ash-leaf * auxiliary leaf * avocado leaf * banana leaf * baroclinic leaf * bay leaf, bay-leaf * beleaf * belladona leaf * betel leaf * bible leaf () * big-leaf * bigleaf * bitter leaf, bitter-leaf, bitterleaf * ) * bloodleaf ( spp. ) * * branch-leaf * brass leaf * broad-leaf, broadleaf * bronze leaf * bumleaf * ) * cedar leaf oil * Chinese leaf * clover-leaf, cloverleaf * cold leaf * come into leaf * compound leaf * copper-leaf, copperleaf * cord-leaf * crinkle leaf * ) * curl-leaf * curry leaf, curry-leaf, curry-leaf tree * cutleaf ** ) ** ) * ) * ) * digitalis leaf * dining leaf * disleaf, disleave * double leaf, double-leaf * * drop-leaf table * Dutch leaf * ) * end leaf, end-leaf, endleaf * facsimile leaf * fall of the leaf * fanleaf * fig-leaf * fine leaf jam * five-leaf, * * five-leafed * flannel-leaf * * floral leaf * flyleaf * Florence leaf * fly-leaf * foliage leaf * foliation leaf * four-leaf * * ) * global Nagano leaf * ) * gold leaf * * * , grey-leaf pine * green leaf lettuce * (Hibiscus laevis ) * ) * heart-leaf * hollow leaf * ) * in full leaf * in leaf * interleaf * interleave * in the leaf * ivy-leaf * ) * Japanese leaf * jellyleaf * lace-leaf, laceleaf, lace-leaf plant * ) * lantern leaves * largeleaf * latticeleaf, lattice leaf plant * laurel-leaf blade, laurel-leaf point * leafage * leaf alcohol * leaf aldehyde * leaf aphid * leaf area duration * leaf-area index * leaf-arrowhead * leaf axil * leaf-base * leaf-bearing * leaf-beaten * leaf-bed * leaf beet * leaf beetle, leaf-beetle (Chrysomelidae) * leafbird (Chloropsis ) * leaf-birth * leaf blade * leaf blight * leaf blister * leaf blotch * leaf blower, leaf-blower * leaf-book * leaf-brass * leaf bridge, leaf-bridge * leaf brown * leaf bud, leaf-bud, leafbud * ) * leaf-bundle * ) * leaf cactus () * leaf-canopy * leaf cast * leafcasting * (Rutelinae) * leaf class * leaf-climber * leaf-climbing * ) * leaf crumpler, leaf-crumpler * leafcup () * leaf curl, leaf-curl * * leaf-cushion * leaf-cut * leaf cutter, leaf-cutter * leaf-cutting * leaf-cycle * ) * leaf disease * leaf-disk test * leafdom * leaf door * leaf-drift * leaf-eared * leafed * leafen * leafen gold * leafery * leafet * leaf-fall * leaf fat, leaf-fat * leaf-feeder * * leaffish ( ) * , leaf-flea * leafflower * leaf-folder * , leaf-footed bug * leaf-footed * leaf form * leaf frog, leaf-frog (Hylidae) * leaf gap, leaf-gap * leaf-gate * leaf gelatine * leaf-gilding * leaf-gold * leaf green, leaf-green * leaf hopper, leaf-hopper, leafhopper (Cicadellidae) * leaf-house * leaf-hut * leaf index * leafing * leaf initial * leaf insect, leaf-insect (Phylliidae) * leafit * * leaf lard, leaf-lard * leafless * leaflet * leaf lettuce * * leaf-like, leaflike * leaf litter * , leaf-louse * leaf-mass * leafmeal * leaf metal, leaf-metal * leaf miner, leaf-miner (Lepidoptera, Symphyta, Diptera) * * leaf mold, leaf-mold, leaf mould, leaf-mould * , leaf-monkey (Colobinae) * leaf-mosaic * ) * leaf mustard * ) * leaf-netting * leaf node * leaf-nosed * leaf notcher * leaf of heddles * leaf-opposed * * leaf peeper, leaf-peeper * leaf peeping, leaf-peeping * leaf-plant * leaf-plate, leaf-platter * leaf primordium * leaf protein * leaf-red * leaf roll, leaf-roll * leaf roller, leaf-roller * leaf-rolling * leaf-rosette * leaf rust, leaf-rust * leaf scald * leaf-scale * leaf scar, leaf-scar * leaf scorch * leaf sewer * leaf shape * leaf-shaped * leaf sheath, leaf-sheath * leaf-shedding * leaf shelter * leaf shutter * leaf-sickness * leaf sight, leaf-sight * leaf-silver * leaf site * leaf-skin * leaf smut * leaf soil, leaf-soil * leaf-spine * leaf spot, leaf-spot * leaf spring, leaf-spring * leaf stalk, leaf-stalk, leafstalk * leaf-table * leaf-tailed * leaf tea * leaf-teeth * leaf-tendril * leaf-thorn * leaf tier * leaf-tin * leaf tobacco * * leaf topology * leaf trace, leaf-trace * leaf-turner * leaf turtle * leaf tyer * leaf valve * leaf-valve * leaf vegetable * leaf warbler, leaf-warbler * ) * leaf-work * leaf-worm * leafy * leather leaf, leatherleaf * leave * leaved * leaveless * leavish * leavy * * lion's leaf * little leaf, littleleaf disease * * * * liver-leaf, liverleaf * local Nagano leaf * long-leafed pine, long-leaf pine, longleaf pine, long-leaved pine (Pinus palustris ) * loose-leaf * lotus leaf wrap * * * Malabar leaf * * maple leaf, maple-leaf * maximum leaf spanning tree * metal leaf * , Mexican flameleaf * mid-leaf * multileaf collimator * myriad-leaf * * * * needle-leaf tree * * , nettle-leaved goosefoot * northern corn-leaf blight, northern leaf blight * nose leaf, nose-leaf * Novikov closed leaf theorem * oak leaf, oakleaf * * one-leaf * orange-leaf * orbiculate leaf * oriental leaf * overleaf * painted leaf * * paint leaf * palladium leaf * palm-leaf * patch-leaf * peach leaf curl * peachleaf willow * * * , pear leaf midge * * platinum leaf * * , potato leafroll virus * preliminary leaf * primary leaf * * quarto leaf * raffle leaf * ragleaf * red leaf * red leaf lettuce * * red raspberry leaf * root leaf, root-leaf * rose-leaf * rough leaf * * * * * satin leaf, * saw-leaf herb * scale leaf * seed leaf, seed-leaf * seminal leaf * shake like a leaf * shin leaf, shin-leaf, shinleaf * short-leaf pine, shortleaf pine, shortleaf yellow pine () * silver leaf, silver-leaf * * silver leaf tree * * single-leaf, single-leaf pine, single-leaf pinyon * skeleton leaf * sleek-leaf * * spade leaf * specific leaf area * * * * * * * stem-and-leaf plot * stem leaf * stiff-leaf * strawberry leaf * strip-leaf * * Sumatra leaf * sweet leaf, sweetleaf * symplectic leaf * take a leaf out of someone's book * * tea leaf, tea-leaf, tealeaf * tendu leaf * * three-leaf * * title leaf * tooling leaf * * true leaf * trumpet-leaf * turn down a leaf * turn over a new leaf * turn over the next leaf * turn the leaf * twill of four leaves * twill of three leaves * twinleaf, twin-leaf * * two-leaf * umbrella leaf * underleaf * unit leaf rate * unleaf, unleave * velvet-leaf, velvetleaf * venous leaf * vine-leaf * walking leaf, walking-leaf (Phylliidae) * water leaf, water-leaf * waterleaf * * way of the leaf * * willow-leaf point * windowleaf *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
  • Synonyms

    * leave (verb)

    Derived terms

    * leafing * leaf through

    See also

    * foliage * frond * needle * (projectlink) *

    References

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