Loaf

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  • intransitive verb. To pass time at leisure; idle.
  • noun. A shaped mass of bread baked in one piece.
  • noun. A shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A portion of bread baked in one lump or mass; a regularly shaped or molded mass of bread; hence, any shaped or molded mass of cake, sugar, or the like.
  • noun. In the medieval ch. in England, the blessed bread; a eulogia.
  • To idle away one's time; lounge; dawdle; play the vagabond; stroll idly and without purpose.
  • To pass or spend in idleness, as time; spend lazily; dawdle: with away: as, to loaf away whole days.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
  • noun. refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
  • intransitive verb. To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
  • transitive verb. To spend in idleness; -- with away.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To do nothing, to be idle.
  • verb. To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
  • noun. A block of bread after baking.
  • noun. Any solid block of food, such as meat.
  • noun. Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
  • noun. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
  • noun. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
  • verb. be about
  • verb. be lazy or idle
  • Word Usage
    "The loaf is a hearty multigrain loaf with a thick, crunchy crust."
    cross-reference
    Form
    loafed  loafing  meatloaf  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    idle  laze  slug  stagnate  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    houff  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apple  biscuit  bread  bun  cheese  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    loaves  
    verb-form
    loafed  loafing  loafs  loaves