Loaf vs. Loaves — 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.

Plural of loaf1.

A shaped mass of bread baked in one piece.

A shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food

To pass time at leisure; idle.

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

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

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

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

(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt

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

(intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

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

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;