Loaf

/ləʊf/ · noun

Meaning

(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking..

Definitions by Sense

1. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.
4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
5. (cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
6. (informal, slang) A catloaf.
7. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt
8. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

Example Sentences

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

sugar-loaf

use one's loaf

It is frequently said of Bertram Wooster that he is a man who can think on his feet, and if the necessity arises he can also use his loaf when on all fours. [...] “Why didn't the idiot tell her not to open it?” “It was his first move. ‘I've found a letter from you here, precious,’ she said. ‘On no account open it, angel,’ he said. So of course she opened it.” She pursed the lips, nodded the loaf, and ate a moody piece of crumpet. “So that's why he's been going about looking like a dead fish.”

It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.

Running a LWSS into it can produce various debris. One of these reactions produces a loaf. When the loaf is properly hit with other LWSSs, it can be pulled backwards.

I am looking for the smallest ancestor of the following four loaf pattern in Conway's Game of Life:

loaf about, loaf around

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• loaves
• loafs
• loafing
• loafed

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