Leaf vs. Leap — What's the Difference?

A leaf (plural leaves) is the principal lateral appendage of the vascular plant stem, usually borne above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. The leaves, stem, flower and fruit together form the shoot system.

Jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force

A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.

Move quickly and suddenly

A leaflike organ or structure.

A forceful jump or quick movement

Leaves considered as a group; foliage.

A group of leopards

The state or time of having or showing leaves

To propel oneself quickly upward or a long way; spring or jump

The leaves of a plant used or processed for a specific purpose

To move quickly or suddenly

Any of the sheets of paper bound in a book, each side of which constitutes a page.

To change quickly or abruptly from one condition or subject to another

A very thin sheet of material, especially metal.

To act quickly or impulsively

Such leaves considered as a group

To enter eagerly into an activity; plunge

A hinged or removable section for a table top.

To propel oneself over

A hinged or otherwise movable section of a folding door, shutter, or gate.

To cause to leap

A section of drawbridge that moves upward or to the side.

The act of leaping; a jump.

One of several metal strips forming a leaf spring.

A place jumped over or from.

To produce leaves; put forth foliage

The distance cleared in a leap.

To turn pages, as in searching or browsing

An abrupt or precipitous passage, shift, or transition

To turn through the pages of.

(intransitive) To jump.

The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

(transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.

To copulate with (a female beast)

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

To copulate with (a human)

A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.

(transitive) To cause to leap.

Two pages.

The act of leaping or jumping.

(in the plural) Tea leaves.

The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

A flat section used to extend the size of a table.

A group of leopards.

A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

(figuratively) A significant move forward.

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

(figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.

In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

(mining) A fault.

The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.

Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.

(music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.

Cannabis.

A salmon ladder.

A Canadian person.

A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.

(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

Half a bushel.

(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

(calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.

A basket.

A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.

A weel or wicker trap for fish.

Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end;

The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.

To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

A fault.

A sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.

Hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.

Look through a book or other written material;

To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.

Turn over pages;

To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.

Produce leaves, of plants

To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

A light springing movement upwards or forwards

An abrupt transition;

A sudden and decisive increase;

The distance leaped (or to be leaped);

Move forward by leaps and bounds;

Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another;

Cause to jump or leap;