loaf
(loʊf )
Word forms: loaves , loafs, loafing, loafedlanguage note: The plural form of the noun is loaves. Loafs is the third person singular present tense of the verb.
1. countable noun B2
A loaf of bread is bread which has been shaped and baked in one piece. It is usually large enough for more than one person and can be cut into slices.
...a loaf of crusty bread. [+ of]
...freshly baked loaves.
Synonyms: lump, block, cake, cube
2. verb
If you loaf, you stand or wait in a place, not doing anything interesting or useful.
Soldiers loafed at street corners. [VERB]
Loaf around means the same as loaf.
We had been at Cambridge together, she studying medicine and me loafing around. [VERB PARTICLE]
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Idioms:
half a loaf is better than none
said to mean that it is better to take what you can get, even if it is very little, than to risk having nothing at all
I'm very disappointed that all we have in the form of test matches is just one solitary test, but half a loaf is better than no loaf, and we are happy that at least we are getting this test.
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Collocations:
loaf cake sourdough loaf
I decide on the chocolate loaf cake.
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Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger biscuit.
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The small malt loaf cakes, ideal as a snack or tasty breakfast, are a great alternative to crumpets or teacakes.
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Lie awake at night tingling with the thrill of tomorrow's sourdough loaf.
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Do invest in an excellent sourdough loaf to be sure.
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This shortage created a vortex in the time-space continuum whereby instagraming a sourdough loaf violated all known laws of physics and somehow became even smugger than usual.
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It's served on a toasted sourdough loaf.
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Tear a sourdough loaf into large croutons, spread out on an oven tray, drizzle with olive oil and cook until very crisp but not too dark.
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Translations:
Chinese: 一条面包
Japanese: パンのひと塊
- painstaking attention
- painstaking detail
- painstaking investigation
- painstakingly
- painstaking negotiation
- painstaking preparation
- painstaking process
- painstaking research
- painstaking restoration
- painstaking search
- painstaking study
- painstaking task
- painstaking work
- pain subsides
- paint
- paint a ceiling
- paint a design
- paint a fence
- paint a landscape
- paint an image
- paint a panel
- paint a picture
- paint a portrait
- paint a scene
- paint a wall