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Leafing
- verb - (botany) the process of forming leaves
- look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages; "leaf through a book"; "leaf a manuscript"
Leaking
- verb - be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"
- enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement"
- have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"
- tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper"
Leaning
- verb - a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
- an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
- cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
- cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
- departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
- rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
- the act of deviating from a vertical position
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
- to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over
Leaping
- verb - a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"
- jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"
- move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"
Leasing
- verb - engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
Leaving
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- act or be so as to become in a specified state; "The inflation left them penniless"; "The president's remarks left us speechless"
- be survived by after one's death; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; "She left a mess when she moved out"; "His good luck finally left him"; "her husband left her after 20 years of marriage"; "she wept thinking she had been left behind"
- go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"
- have as a result or residue; "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
- have left or have as a remainder; "That left the four of us"; "19 minus 8 leaves 11"
- leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors
Loading
- verb - a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads"
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
- fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
- goods carried by a large vehicle
- provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags onto the trucks"
- the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.; "the loading took 2 hours"
- the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- weight to be borne or conveyed
Loafing
- verb - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
- be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
- having no employment
Loaning
- verb - disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned
- give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
Meaking
- - The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.