Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the segments of a compound leaf.
- noun A small leaf or leaflike part.
- noun A printed, usually folded handbill or flier intended for free distribution.
- intransitive verb To hand out leaflets.
- intransitive verb To hand out leaflets to or in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the thin plates or leaves contained in the lung-books of certain spiders.
- noun One of the leaf-like branchiæ of certain aquatic insectlarvæ.
- noun A little leaf; in botany, one of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
- noun A small leaf of printed matter for distribution; a tract.
- noun In printing, a circular of six or more small pages on one piece of paper, not stitched or sewed.
- noun In zoology:
- noun A plate or layer of branchial appendages of a crustacean.
- noun One of the three divisions of the human diaphragm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little leaf.
- noun (Bot.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.
- noun (Zoöl.) A leaflike organ or part.
- noun A printed sheet of paper, of one page, or one sheet folded over, containing an advertisement, tract, or other notice, and usually distributed for free or included in the package with a purchased item.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany One of the
components of a compound leaf. - noun botany A
small plant leaf . - noun A small
sheet ofpaper containinginformation , used fordissemination of said information, often anadvertisement . - noun anatomy A
flap of avalve of aheart orblood vessel . - verb transitive To
distribute leaflets to. - verb intransitive To distribute leaflets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small book usually having a paper cover
- noun part of a compound leaf
- noun a thin triangular flap of a heart valve
Etymologies
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Examples
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What UKIP should have explained in their leaflet is the following:
UKIP playing the race card in Norwich North ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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But if this leaflet is the best the critics can do, I do not think he has much of a case to answer.
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Less than one week until the by-election in Norwich North and we have only just received our first leaflet from the Green Party.
Archive 2009-07-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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This latest Lib Dem leaflet is A4, folded length ways.
Archive 2009-07-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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I know a Lib Dem leaflet is going out already in other parts of the constituency.
Who say's the Tories don't lie with their bar charts on leaflets in Norwich North ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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I know a Lib Dem leaflet is going out already in other parts of the constituency.
Archive 2009-06-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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This leaflet is A3, folded in to three, which is why it appears to have part printed upside down.
Archive 2009-06-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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The Tory leaflet is actually A3 (when folded out) so I copied it as best I could not including the fold out middle.
Archive 2009-07-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Labour's second Freepost leaflet is doing the rounds.
Archive 2009-07-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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This latest Lib Dem leaflet is A4, folded length ways.
6th lib Dem Leaflet Norfolk Blogger 2009
bilby commented on the word leaflet
That's why attendances have been down. We haven't had heart surgeons doing our promotion.
November 22, 2008