The difference between Leaf and Stile
When used as nouns, leaf means the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants, whereas stile means a set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
Leaf is also verb with the meaning: to produce leaves.
check bellow for the other definitions of Leaf and Stile
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Leaf as a noun:
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
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Leaf as a noun:
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
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Leaf as a noun:
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
Examples:
"gold leaf'"
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Leaf as a noun:
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
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Leaf as a noun (in the plural):
Tea leaves.
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Leaf as a noun:
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
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Leaf as a noun:
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
Examples:
"The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side."
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Leaf as a noun (botany):
A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
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Leaf as a noun (computing, mathematics):
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
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Leaf as a noun:
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
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Leaf as a noun:
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
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Leaf as a verb (intransitive):
To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
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Leaf as a verb (transitive):
To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
Examples:
"The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed."
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Stile as a noun:
A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
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Stile as a noun:
A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door, window or ladder.
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Stile as a noun:
A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style.
Examples:
"rfquotek Moxon"
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Stile as a noun (obsolete):
A mode of composition; a style.
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Stile as a verb: