OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2923

leave

/liːv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
diábetes • excedencia • licencia • permiso
Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
I've just been given three weeks' leave by my boss — I don't think I still have some leave owing to me.
despedida
Farewell, departure.
I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 7520

leaf

/liːf/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
coscoja • foja (desus.) • fronda • hoja
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
folio • hoja
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.
hoja
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
gold leaf
tablero
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
hoja • tablero móvil
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
The bridge shear locks were repaired and the long ends of the shear locks shortened about two inches to eliminate butting of the bridge leafs against each other.
The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
hoja
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2922

leave

/liːv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dejar
To have a consequence or remnant.
I left my car at home and took a bus to work.
The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.
abandonar • abjurar • apostatar • defeccionar • dejar • desertar • salir de
To depart; to separate from.
I left the country and I left my wife.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve…
dejar • legar
To transfer something.
When my father died, he left me the house.
dejar • depositar
To transfer something.
I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
dejar
To transfer something.
Can't we just leave this to the experts?