"deleave" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /diːˈliːv/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: deleaves [present, singular, third-person], deleaving [participle, present], deleaved [participle, past], deleaved [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} deleave (third-person singular simple present deleaves, present participle deleaving, simple past and past participle deleaved)
  1. (transitive) To split (paper) into separate leaves or sheets. Tags: transitive Related terms: deleaf, leaf, interleave
    Sense id: en-deleave-en-verb-E8IjQS1c Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deleaves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deleaving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deleaved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deleaved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deleave (third-person singular simple present deleaves, present participle deleaving, simple past and past participle deleaved)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              14,
              21
            ],
            [
              144,
              153
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1950, American Business, volume 20, page 67:",
          "text": "Simple Way to Deleave Forms and Carbons. To do away with torn sets, loss of time and labor in separating carbons from multiple form sets, a new deleaving machine is handy to have around the office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1973, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 583:",
          "text": "[…] to deleave the multiple ply continuous form stationery into individual continuous form plies. The individual plies are then unrolled and each separated at the transverse perforations to provide separate stationery forms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To split (paper) into separate leaves or sheets."
      ],
      "id": "en-deleave-en-verb-E8IjQS1c",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To split (paper) into separate leaves or sheets."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "deleaf"
        },
        {
          "word": "leaf"
        },
        {
          "word": "interleave"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːˈliːv/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deleave"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deleaves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deleaving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deleaved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deleaved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deleave (third-person singular simple present deleaves, present participle deleaving, simple past and past participle deleaved)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "deleaf"
    },
    {
      "word": "leaf"
    },
    {
      "word": "interleave"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              14,
              21
            ],
            [
              144,
              153
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1950, American Business, volume 20, page 67:",
          "text": "Simple Way to Deleave Forms and Carbons. To do away with torn sets, loss of time and labor in separating carbons from multiple form sets, a new deleaving machine is handy to have around the office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1973, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 583:",
          "text": "[…] to deleave the multiple ply continuous form stationery into individual continuous form plies. The individual plies are then unrolled and each separated at the transverse perforations to provide separate stationery forms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To split (paper) into separate leaves or sheets."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To split (paper) into separate leaves or sheets."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːˈliːv/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deleave"
}

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