{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "liv" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio - 'to leave' (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/leave.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio - 'to leave' (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/leave.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/leave.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/leave.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English leven, from Old English lǣfan (“to leave”), from Proto-West Germanic *laibijan, from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to let stay, leave”), causative of *lībaną (“to stay, remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick; fat”).\nCognate with Old Frisian lēva (“to leave”), Old Saxon lēvian, Old High German leiban (“to leave”), Old Norse leifa (“to leave over”) (whence Icelandic leifa (“to leave food uneaten”)), lifna (“to be left”) (whence Danish levne). More at lave, belive.", "Formed in English by conversion (anthimeria) of the transitive verb leave (“cause or allow to remain available”). Attested since the 19th century, with earliest references to billiards.", "From Middle English leve, from Old English lēaf (“permission, privilege”), from Proto-Germanic *laubō, *laubą (“permission, privilege, favour, worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love, hold dear”). Cognate with obsolete German Laube (“permission”), Swedish lov (“permission”), Icelandic leyfi (“permission”). Related to Dutch verlof, German Erlaubnis. See also love.", "From Middle English leven, from Old English līefan (“to allow, grant, concede; believe, trust, confide in”), from Proto-West Germanic *laubijan, from Proto-Germanic *laubijaną (“to allow, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love, hold dear”). Cognate with German lauben (“to allow, believe”), Icelandic leyfa (“to allow”).", "From Middle English leven, from lef (“leaf”). More at leaf.", "From French lever. Compare levy. Compare also Middle English leve, a variant of levy that may have been monosyllabic." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To have a consequence or remnant.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.\nI left my car at home and took a bus to work.\nThe ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.\nThere's not much food left. We'd better go to the shops.\n", "(transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.\nThe lightning left her dazzled for several minutes.\nInfantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.\nShe left disappointed.\n", "(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.\nLeave your hat in the hall.\nWe should leave the legal matters to lawyers.\nI left my sewing and went to the window to watch the falling snow.\n" ] }, { "mean": "To depart; to separate from.", "submean": [ "To let be or do without interference.\nI left him to his reflections.\nI leave my hearers to judge.", "(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.\nI left the country and I left my wife.\n", "(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).\n\nI left the band.", "(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.\nI think you'd better leave." ] }, { "mean": "To transfer something.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.\nWhen my father died, he left me the house.", "(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.\nI'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.", "(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.\nCan't we just leave this to the experts?" ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay." }, { "mean": "(transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to \"leave off\" (+ noun / gerund)." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball." }, { "mean": "(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).\n1890 February 27, “Slosson’s Close Shave”, in New York Times‎:Having counted 38 points he tried a beautiful massé out of the corner, hit the first ball just a trifle too hard and kissed his own ball off just when victory seemed to be his. The leave was unfortunate for Ives. Slosson played brilliantly and ran the game out, a close winner, with 22 points." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.\nSynonyms: annual leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus:vacation\nI've been given three weeks' leave by my boss." }, { "mean": "(dated or law) Permission.\nSynonyms: authorisation, consent\nMight I beg leave to accompany you?\nThe applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences." }, { "mean": "(dated) Farewell, departure.\nI took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.\nWe were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) To raise; to levy.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, page 334: au army ſtrong ſhe leau'd," } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(to depart): See Thesaurus:leave", "(to end one's connection with): depart, forget, leave behind" ], "kor": [ "", "" ] } } }