Loaf vs. Loam — What's the Difference?

A loaf is a, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food, typically and originally of bread. It is common to bake bread in a rectangular bread pan, also called a loaf pan, because some kinds of bread dough tend to collapse and spread out during the cooking process.

The definition of Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > 63 micrometres (0.0025 in)), silt (particle size > 2 micrometres (7.9×10−5 in)), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < 2 micrometres (7.9×10−5 in)). By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand–silt–clay, respectively.

A shaped mass of bread baked in one piece.

Soil composed of a mixture of sand, clay, silt, and organic matter.

A shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food

A mixture of moist clay and sand, and often straw, used especially in making bricks and foundry molds.

To pass time at leisure; idle.

To fill, cover, or coat with loam.

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.

(geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

(metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.

(Cockney rhyming slang) The brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).

To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.

Made of loam; consisting of loam.

(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt

A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

(Internet slang) To be in catloaf position (for cats or other animals)

A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.

(intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials

To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

To spend in idleness; - with away; as, to loaf time away.

A shaped mass of baked bread

Be lazy or idle;

Be about;