📖 L — The English dictionary · page 12

leavened — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Made with leaven, so that the dough has risen; the opposite of unleavened.↗ Example: Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'↗ (Torah EXO.12.20, JPS 1917)↗ · With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.↗ (Torah LEV.7.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.↗ (Torah EXO.12.34, JPS 1917)↗ · They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them; for so ye love to do, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.↗ (Prophets AMO.4.5, JPS 1917)↗

leavening — Everyday, meaning 1: Leavening is something added to dough or batter, like yeast, baking powder or baking soda, to make it rise and become light.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literary) A leavening is a small amount of something, like humour, that makes something heavier or more serious better and lighter.↗ Example: Yeast is the leavening in bread.↗ · Baking powder is a leavening for cakes.↗ · Matzah is bread made without leavening.↗ · Without leavening, the cake came out flat.↗ · His jokes gave a leavening of fun to the long meeting.↗ · The class tested which leavening made the dough rise most.↗

leavest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «leavest» means «you leave», a form of «leave»: To leave is to go away from a place: leave the room.↗ Example: ‘If thou leavest them,’ said the hoodie, ‘we will steal them.’↗ (The Lilac Fairy Book) · ‘If thou leavest them, we will steal them,’ said a hoodie who was perched on a stone above him, and the giant answered:↗ (The Lilac Fairy Book)

leaving — Everyday, meaning 1: Leavings are things left over, such as scraps of food left on a plate.↗ Example: The dog ate the leavings from the plate.↗ · The mice found the leavings of a great feast.↗ · Clear away the leavings after lunch.↗ · And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.↗ (Torah GEN.44.12, JPS 1917)↗

lectern — Everyday, meaning 1: A lectern is a tall stand with a sloping top on which a speaker puts notes or a book while standing up to read or speak.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) In a church a lectern holds the big Bible, and a reader reads the Bible passages from it.↗ Example: The head teacher stood at the lectern to give out the prizes.↗ · I put my speech on the lectern and took a deep breath.↗ · In our church the lectern is a brass eagle holding the Bible on its wings.↗ · My sister read the first reading from the lectern on Sunday.↗ · The professor leaned on the lectern while he talked.↗ · The president walked up to the lectern with a microphone on it.↗

lecture — Everyday, meaning 1: A talk given to a group of people, especially students at a university, to teach them about a subject.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A long, serious talk telling someone off or telling them how to behave.↗ e.g. Mum gave me a lecture about my messy room.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To give a talk to students as a teacher at a university or college.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To talk to someone in a long, serious way about what they did wrong.↗ Example: My sister goes to three lectures a week at university.↗ · The professor gave a lecture on volcanoes.↗ · I got a long lecture from Dad about leaving the gate open.↗ · Please don't lecture me, I know I was wrong.↗ · The lecture hall was full of students.↗ · She lectures in history at the college.↗ · Grandad lectured us about saving money.↗ · We listened to a lecture about safety near water.↗ · All that botanists can say in many lectures was explained in a moment by this little flower.↗ · Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The substance of this little volume was read as a [p. 13] Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

lecturer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who teaches students at a university or college, often by giving talks called lectures.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Anyone who gives a talk to an audience.↗ Example: My aunt is a lecturer in chemistry at the university.↗ · The lecturer showed slides of the planets.↗ · The students took notes while the lecturer spoke.↗ · A visiting lecturer talked about whales.↗ · Mum said, «Stop lecturing me, I'm not one of your students!»↗ · He became a lecturer after finishing his PhD.↗ · "At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments, and then I formed a part of his audience.↗

led — Everyday, meaning 1: Showed the way by going in front (she led us to the park).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Was in charge of a group or team.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Was winning or in first place.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Caused something to happen (led to).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Went in a certain direction (the path led to the river).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Lived a certain kind of life (led a happy life).↗ Example: The guide led us through the cave.↗ · Our captain led the team to victory.↗ · At half time, our team led by two goals.↗ · The path led down to the beach.↗ · Too much sugar led to a toothache.↗ · She led a busy life.↗ · The parade was led by a marching band.↗ · She now led Gerda into the flower-garden.↗ · Thou in Thy love hast led the people that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.↗ (Torah EXO.15.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.↗ (Torah DEU.29.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.↗ (Torah GEN.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, without stumbling?↗ (Prophets ISA.63.13, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall be led with gladness and rejoicing; they shall enter into the king's palace.↗ (Writings PSA.45.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.↗ (Writings PSA.78.53, JPS 1917)↗

ledge — Everyday, meaning 1: A ledge is a narrow, flat shelf sticking out from a wall, cliff or window.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A window ledge (or windowsill) is the shelf at the bottom of a window.↗ Example: A bird built its nest on the cliff ledge.↗ · Put the plant on the window ledge.↗ · The climber rested on a narrow ledge.↗ · The cat sat on the ledge watching birds.↗ · Never stand on a high ledge.↗ · The book fell off the ledge.↗ · The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.↗ · And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.↗ (Torah EXO.27.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.↗ (Torah EXO.38.4, JPS 1917)↗

ledger — Everyday, meaning 1: A ledger is a book or computer file where a business writes down money coming in and money going out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ledger is any written record of things, like a list kept over time.↗ Example: The shopkeeper wrote every sale in the ledger.↗ · Our class kept a ledger for the bake sale money.↗ · Money in: 40 pounds, money out: 15 pounds — what does the ledger show left?↗ · The old ledger was full of neat handwriting.↗ · Banks now keep ledgers on computers.↗ · Check the ledger to see who paid.↗

lee — Everyday, meaning 1: The lee is the side of something that is sheltered from the wind, like the lee of a wall or a hill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: On a boat the lee side is the side away from the wind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lee is also a common first name and surname.↗ Example: We ate our picnic in the lee of a big rock, out of the wind.↗ · The lee side of the mountain gets very little rain.↗ · Sheep crowded in the lee of the stone wall.↗ · The boat waited in the lee of the island until the storm passed.↗ · My friend Lee lives next door.↗ · Pitch your tent in the lee of the hedge.↗ · And in this mountain will the LORD of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.↗ (Prophets ISA.25.6, JPS 1917)↗

leech — Everyday, meaning 1: A small worm that lives in water or wet places and sucks blood from animals and people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, rude) A person who uses other people to get money or help and gives nothing back.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To slowly take something away from someone or something: the cold leeched the warmth from his hands.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, informal) To use others for your own gain: he leeches off his friends.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In old stories, a leech was another name for a doctor.↗ Example: A leech stuck to my leg when I walked through the swamp.↗ · Leeches have suckers at both ends of their bodies.↗ · Do not pull a leech off hard; ask an adult to help.↗ · He is such a leech, always asking to borrow money.↗ · Stop leeching off your brother and buy your own snacks.↗ · Some hospitals still use leeches to help wounds heal.↗ · The damp leeched the colour out of the old poster.↗ · She clung to me like a leech all day.↗ · His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice.↗

leek — Everyday, meaning 1: A long vegetable with a white stem and green leaves that tastes like a mild onion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The leek is a national symbol of Wales.↗ Example: Mum made leek and potato soup.↗ · We wore leeks on St David's Day.↗ · The leek is a symbol of Wales.↗ · You have to wash leeks well, as soil gets between the leaves.↗ · Grandad grows giant leeks for the village show.↗ · A leek looks like a very big spring onion.↗ · In one grew some very fine chives or leeks; this was the kitchen garden.↗ · We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (Torah NUM.11.5, JPS 1917)↗

leeward — Everyday, meaning 1: Leeward means on the side away from the wind, the sheltered side.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To leeward means in the direction the wind is blowing towards.↗ Example: The leeward side of the island is dry and sunny.↗ · We sheltered on the leeward side of the boat.↗ · The ship drifted to leeward.↗ · The Leeward Islands are in the Caribbean.↗ · Rain falls on the windward side, and the leeward side stays dry.↗ · Pitch your tent on the leeward side of the hill.↗

left — Everyday, meaning 1: Left means still there after some has gone or been used: «Two cakes are left».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Left is the past of leave: to go away from a place, or to let something stay where it is.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Left is a side: the side where most people wear a watch, the opposite of right.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The left in politics means people who want more sharing and change.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (euphemism) «He left us» or «she's left this world» can gently mean someone died; «let go» or «left the company» may mean lost a job.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual) «Left, right and centre» means everywhere; «out of left field» (US) means strange, unexpected.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (formal) Exams say «remaining», «the remainder», «residual», «outstanding» or «departed» for left.↗ Example: How many apples does Tom have left?↗ · Anna had 10 sweets and ate 4.↗ How many are left?↗ · Ben left 3 books at school.↗ · Turn left at the post office.↗ · The train left at 6 o'clock.↗ · Write with your left hand.↗ · We ate the left-over pizza for lunch.↗ · Look right, then left, then right again before you cross.↗ · how many he got left then, after giving 4 away?↗ · Oi, you've left me 1 chip, cheers a lot.↗ · Ascertain the number of items remaining in the possession of the purchaser after 4 are consumed.↗ · Grandpa left us last year (he died), and we miss him.↗ · And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.↗ (Torah GEN.17.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'↗ (Torah EXO.2.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.↗ (Torah LEV.14.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'↗ (Prophets ISA.49.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.↗ (Writings RUT.1.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house.↗ (Prophets 2SA.15.16, JPS 1917)↗