loaf
11loaf|er — «LOH fuhr», noun. 1. a person who loafs; idler. 2. a) a shoe resembling a moccasin, but with sole and heel stitched to the upper. b) Loafer, a trademark for such a shoe …
12loaf — Ⅰ. loaf1 (lōf) n. pl. loaves (lōvz) 1) A shaped mass of bread baked in one piece. 2) A shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food: »veal loaf. ╂ [Middle English lof, from Old English hlāf.] Word History: Loaf, lord, and …
13loaf — I UK [ləʊf] / US [loʊf] noun [countable] Word forms loaf : singular loaf plural loaves UK [ləʊvz] / US [loʊvz] * bread in a long, round, or square shape that you cut into slices (= thin flat pieces) for eating. A sliced loaf has been cut into… …
14loaf — loaf1 [ləuf US louf] n plural loaves [ləuvz US louvz] [: Old English; Origin: hlaf] 1.) bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into ↑slice s ▪ a loaf of bread white/wholemeal/granary etc loaf BrE a sliced loaf …
15loaf — 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 …
16loaf — 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 …
17Loaf — 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… …
18loaf — 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 …
19loaf — {{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… …
20loaf — [[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… …
