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    LOAF

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: loaves  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shapeplay

    Example:

    a loaf of cheese

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("loaf" is a kind of...):

    food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loaf"):

    loaf sugar; sugar loaf; sugarloaf (a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar)

    pound cake (rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour)

    haslet (heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised)

    headcheese (sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig)

    lunch meat; luncheon meat (any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold)

    scrapple (scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eatingplay

    Synonyms:

    loaf; loaf of bread

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("loaf" is a kind of...):

    bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

    Meronyms (parts of "loaf"):

    heel (one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loaf"):

    French loaf (a loaf of French bread)

    meat loaf; meatloaf (a baked loaf of ground meat)

     II. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they loaf  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it loafs  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: loafed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: loafed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: loafing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Be aboutplay

    Example:

    Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

    Synonyms:

    footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry

    Classified under:

    Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

    Hypernyms (to "loaf" is one way to...):

    be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "loaf"):

    lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Be lazy or idleplay

    Example:

    Her son is just bumming around all day

    Synonyms:

    arse about; arse around; bum; bum about; bum around; frig around; fuck off; loaf; loll; loll around; lounge about; lounge around; waste one's time

    Classified under:

    Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

    Hypernyms (to "loaf" is one way to...):

    idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP

    Derivation:

    loafer (person who does no work)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    He was a good worker. He's done a heap of work for me. He never loafed on me, an' he was a joe-dandy at hammerin' a raw team into shape.

    (Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

    I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets.

    (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

    The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.

    (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

    Life had a thousand faces, and White Fang found he must meet them all—thus, when he went to town, in to San Jose, running behind the carriage or loafing about the streets when the carriage stopped.

    (White Fang, by Jack London)

    Item, that having been told by the master of the novices that he should restrict his food for two days to a single three-pound loaf of bran and beans, for the greater honoring and glorifying of St. Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, he was heard by brother Ambrose and others to say that he wished twenty thousand devils would fly away with the said Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, or any other saint who came between a man and his meat.

    (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    All our meat turned out to be tough, and there was hardly any crust to our loaves.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    But then, Joe was not in love, had none of the responsibilities of love, and he could afford to loaf through the land of nothing-to-do.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    He cast on me a glance of surprise; but without answering, he cut a thick slice from his loaf, and gave it to me.

    (Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

    “You know I was travelling to Japan for my health,” she said, as we lingered at the fire after dinner and delighted in the movelessness of loafing.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    Then she placed beside him a loaf, and some meat, and a flask of wine, of such a kind, that however much he took of them, they would never grow less.

    (Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)


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