loaf

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A block of bread after baking.

   “Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.”

2. isim Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

   “sugar-loaf”

3. isim Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.

   “use one's loaf”

4. isim A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
5. isim A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.

   “It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.”

6. isim A catloaf.
7. fiil To headbutt
8. fiil To do nothing, to be idle.

   “loaf about, loaf around”