different between leaf vs strand

English

Etymology

From Middle English leef, from Old English l?af, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laub? (“leaf”) (compare West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv), from Proto-Indo-European *lowb?-o-m, from *lewb?- (“leaf, rind”) (compare Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian ??? (lub, “bast”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?f, IPA^(key): /li?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f
• Homophones: Leith (with th-fronting), lief

Noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

4. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).

   Synonyms: folio, folium

5. (advertising, dated) Two pages.
   • 1900, Profitable Advertising (volume 10, issue 2, page 893)

     Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.

6. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
9. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

   Hyponym: doorleaf

   Meronym: stile

10. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
11. (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).

12. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
13. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
14. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
15. (Internet slang, derogatory) A Canadian person.

Synonyms

• phyllon

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

   The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.

Synonyms

• leave (verb)

Derived terms

• leafing
• leaf through

Translations

See also

• foliage
• frond
• needle

Further reading

• leaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• leaf (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• leaf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• leaf at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• Lafe, alef, feal, flea

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ???f/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *laub?. Cognate with West Frisian leaf, Old Saxon l?f, Old High German loup, Old Norse lauf, Gothic ???????????????????? (laufs).

Noun

l?af n

1. leaf
2. page

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: leef, lefe, leve, lewe
  • English: leaf
  • Scots: leaf, lefe, leif
  • Yola: laafe

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *laub?. Cognate with Old High German *louba (German Laube).

Noun

l?af f

1. permission

Declension

Descendants

• English: leave

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?af.

Noun

leaf (plural leafs)

1. leaf

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???f/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian l?f

Noun

leaf n (plural leaven, diminutive leafke)

1. leaf, especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass

Further reading

• “leaf (IV)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian li?f

Adjective

leaf

1. friendly, kind, cordial

Inflection

Derived terms

• leafde
• leavehearsbistke

Further reading

• “leaf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st?ænd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /st?ænd/, [st???nd]
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *strand? (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand.

Noun

strand (plural strands)

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
2. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).

Alternative forms

• strond (obsolete)

Translations

Verb

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
3. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

   Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

Synonyms

• (run aground): beach
• (leave someone in a difficult situation): abandon, desert

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Cognate with Scots stran, strawn, strand (“strand”). Perhaps the same as strand ("rivulet, stream, gutter"; see Etymology 1 above); or from Middle English *stran, from Old French estran (“a rope, cord”), from Middle High German stren, strene (“skein, strand”), from Old High German streno, from Proto-West Germanic *stren?, from Proto-Germanic *strinô (“strip, strand”), from Proto-Indo-European *str?y-, *ster- (“strip, line, streak, ray, stripe, row”); related to Dutch streen (“skein, hank of thread, strand, string”), German Strähne (“skein, hank of thread, strand of hair”).

Noun

strand (plural strands)

1. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
2. A string.
3. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

   strand of spaghetti

   strand of hair.

4. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
5. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
6. (figuratively) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

   strand of truth

   • 2004, David Wray, Literacy: Major Themes in Education, Taylor & Francis ?ISBN, page 78

     She responds to both questions in writing and checks her answer on the fact question. Her suspicions confirmed about the importance of the two names, Miranda vows to pay close attention to this strand of the story as she continues to read.

7. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:string

Derived terms

• do the strand

Translations

Note: many languages have particular words for “a strand of <substance>” that are different for each substance. The translations below refer to strands in general. You might find a more appropriate translation under the word for the substance itself.

Verb

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

1. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
2. (transitive) To form by uniting strands.

Anagrams

• Arndts, drants

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch strand, from Middle Dutch strant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strant/

Noun

strand (plural strande, diminutive strandjie)

1. beach

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse str?nd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stran/, [sd???n?]

Noun

strand c (singular definite stranden, plural indefinite strande)

1. beach
2. shore, seashore
3. seaside

Inflection

Derived terms

Verb

strand

1. imperative of strande

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?nt/
• Hyphenation: strand
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch strant. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

strand n (plural stranden, diminutive strandje n)

1. beach, strand

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: strand

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

strand

1. first-person singular present indicative of stranden
2. imperative of stranden

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Strand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??tr?nd]
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

strand (plural strandok)

1. beach (a sandy shore of a body of water used for summertime leisure, swimming, suntanning)
2. pool, swimming pool (an urban open-air facility with lawns, trees and several artificially constructed pools, used for summertime leisure)

Declension

Derived terms

• strandol
• strandos

(Compound words):

• strandcip?
• strandpapucs
• strandtáska

References

Further reading

• strand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From stranda (“to run aground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

strand n (genitive singular strands, nominative plural strönd)

1. running aground, stranding

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• strande
• stround, stronde, strond

Etymology

From Old English strand.

Noun

strand (plural strandes)

1. (chiefly Northern) beach, shoreline

Descendants

• English: strand
• Scots: strand
• Yola: sthroane

References

• “str??nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse str?nd

Noun

strand f or m (definite singular stranda or stranden, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach or shore

Derived terms

• nakenstrand
• sandstrand
• strande
• strandlinje

Etymology 2

Verb

strand

1. imperative of strande

References

• “strand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse str?nd. Akin to English strand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?nd/, /str?n?/

Noun

strand f (definite singular stranda, indefinite plural strender, definite plural strendene)

1. a beach or shore

Derived terms

• nakenstrand
• sandstrand
• strande
• strandlinje

References

• “strand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strand?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?nd/

Noun

strand n

1. beach
2. shore

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: strand, strande
  • English: strand
  • Scots: strand
  • Yola: sthroane
• ? Old French: estrande, estran

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *strand? (“edge; shore”).

Noun

strand n

1. beach

Descendants

• Middle Low German: strand, strant m
  • Plautdietsch: Straunt

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish strand, from Old Norse str?nd, from Proto-Germanic *strand?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt-.

Pronunciation

Noun

strand c

1. beach (not necessarily sandy)
2. shore

Declension

Related terms

References

• strand in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)