LEAVES

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   plant

    [countable] one of the flat green parts of a plant that are joined to its stem or branches:
• a flowering bush with large shiny leaves
• leaf of
• Add a few leaves of fresh basil to the salad.
• be in leaf/come into leaf (=have or start growing leaves, at a particular time of year)
• The forest was just coming into leaf.
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    take a leaf out of somebody's book

   to copy the way someone else behaves because you want to be like them or be as successful as they are:
• They are committing $3m to research. We could take a leaf out of their book.
• 3

    turn over a new leaf

   to change the way you behave and become a better person:
• I see fatherhood as a chance to turn over a new leaf.
• 4

   page

    [countable] formal a page of a book:
• He slipped the letter between the leaves of his notebook.
• ➔ loose-leaf, overleaf
• 5

   part of table

    [countable] a part of the top of a table that can be taken out to make the table smaller

• ➔ shake like a leaf

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