leave
IPA: ɫˈiv
noun
- (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- (dated or law) Permission.
- (dated) Farewell, departure.
verb
- To have a consequence or remnant.
- (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
- (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- To depart; to separate from.
- To let be or do without interference.
- (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
- (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- To transfer something.
- (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
- (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
- (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
- (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
- (obsolete) To raise; to levy.
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Examples of "leave" in Sentences
- If you leave out his name leave out mine too—or as you like.
- Audience members formed L-shapes with their hands - as in "leave" - and shooed her off the stage.
- [7 Hôtel des Quatre Nations.] of health, and obtain leave from the Quarantine for the passengers landing.
- There's other stuff I saw that I've forgotten to write about, so if you have specific questions about a title leave me a comment.
- My real advice about preparing to leave is to eat tons of good food, speak a lot of English really fast and know that your friends actually understand it, and enjoy your time with friends and family.
- Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press SHOW OF DISRESPECT: An antigovernment protester displayed his shoe soles with the word "leave" written in Arabic during a protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in San'a, Yemen, Monday.
- But what that if, or if not, has to do with "leave me," we cannot conjecture; but this we do venture to conjecture, that to expect our graduate ever to _leave_ Mr Turner is one of the most hopeless of all Mr Turner's "Fallacies of Hope."
- Across town, an even larger number of people converged on a square in front of Sanaa University chanting slogans calling for his ouster and waving red cards emblazoned with the word "leave" despite fears of more violence a week after government security forces shot dead more than 40 demonstrators in the capital.
- Your Reverence should know that I consider it very easy to have a house here for the accommodation of religious men; and I believe it would not be difficult (even without its being a monastery) to obtain leave to have mass said there, just as leave is often given to a private gentleman who has an oratory in his house.
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