leaf
The flat green part of a plant that grows from the stem or branch.
A flat, usually green structure growing from the stem of a plant, used for photosynthesis.
A thin flat piece of paper, metal, or other material.
A very thin sheet or layer of a material such as paper, metal, or other substance.
One sheet of paper in a book, with writing on both sides.
A single sheet of paper in a book or notebook, especially one that is numbered on both sides.
To turn pages in a book quickly without reading all the words.
To turn over pages in a book, magazine, etc., quickly and casually, without reading everything carefully.
- Base: leaf
- Plural: leaf, leafs, leaves
- Base: leaf
- 3rd Person Singular: leafs
- Present Participle: leafing
- Past: leafed
leaf through
1Turn pages quickly without reading fully
To turn pages quickly in a book or magazine without reading all the words.
- He sat by the fire and leafed through an old photo album.
- I like to leaf through cookbooks for inspiration.
take a leaf out of someone's book
1Copy someone's behavior or example
To do something in the way someone else does it because you think it is good or right.
- You should take a leaf out of her book and arrive on time.
- He took a leaf out of his coach's book and trained every day.
turn over a new leaf
1Start behaving better or differently
To start to behave in a better or different way than before.
- After moving to a new city, he decided to turn over a new leaf and focus on his studies.
- She promised to turn over a new leaf after the argument.