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21loaf — English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb …
22Loaf — A loaf is a shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food. It may refer to a bread or other moulded foods, such as meatloaf. [American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed, 2003.] The term loaf sometimes refers to head from the… …
23Loaf Island — Vorlage:Infobox Insel/Wartung/Bild fehltVorlage:Infobox Insel/Wartung/Höhe fehlt Loaf Island Gewässer Beringmeer Inselgruppe Near Islands Geographische Lage …
24loaf — I. /loʊf / (say lohf) noun (plural loaves /loʊvz / (say lohvz)) 1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass of definite form. 2. a shaped or moulded mass of food, as of sugar, chopped meat, etc.: a veal loaf. {Middle English lo(o)f, Old English …
25loaf sugar — noun a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar • Syn: ↑sugarloaf, ↑sugar loaf • Hypernyms: ↑sugar, ↑refined sugar, ↑loaf * * * noun : refined sugar molded into loaves or small cubes or squares * * * …
26loaf — {{11}}loaf (n.) late 13c., from O.E. hlaf portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form, from P.Gmc. *khlaibuz (Cf. O.N. hleifr, Swed. lev, O.Fris. hlef, O.H.G. hleib, Ger. Laib, Goth. hlaifs bread, loaf ), of uncertain origin, perhaps… …
27loaf — [[t]lo͟ʊf[/t]] loaves, loafs, loafing, loafed (The plural form of the noun is loaves. Loafs is the third person singular present tense of the verb.) 1) N COUNT: oft N of n A loaf of bread is bread which has been shaped and baked in one piece. It… …
28loaf — 1. n. (pl. loaves) 1 a portion of baked bread, usu. of a standard size or shape. 2 a quantity of other food formed into a particular shape (sugar loaf; meat loaf). 3 sl. the head, esp. as a source of common sense (use your loaf). Phrases and… …
29loaf — loaf1 /lohf/, n., pl. loaves /lohvz/. 1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top. 2. a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf. 3. Brit. a. the rounded head of a cabbage,… …
30loaf — 1. noun /ləʊf,loʊf/ a) (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking. b) Any solid block of food, such as meat. Syn …
