Bunk vs. Leave — What's the Difference?

A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall.

Go away from

A bunk bed.

Allow or cause to remain

A place for sleeping.

Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

Empty talk; nonsense.

(of a plant) put out new leaves

To sleep in a bunk or bed.

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

To stay the night; sleep

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

To go to bed

Permission

To provide with sleeping quarters.

To go out of or away from

One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

To go without taking or removing

(nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.

To omit or exclude

(military) A cot.

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

(US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state

A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

To have remaining after death

(slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

To bequeath

(slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.

To give over to another to control or act on

To occupy a bunk.

To abandon or forsake

To provide a bunk.

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

(British) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').

To give or deposit, as for use or information, upon one's departure or in one's absence

(dated) To expel from a school.

To cause or permit to be or remain

(slang) To depart; scram.

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

(slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

To set out or depart; go

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

To put forth foliage; leaf.

One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers; as, to sleep in the top bunk.

Permission to do something.

A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

An act of departing; a farewell

A bed.

See leave of absence.

To go to bed in a bunk; - sometimes with in.

To have a consequence or remnant.

A long trough for feeding cattle

(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.

A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

To cause, to result in.

A rough bed (as at a campsite)

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

To depart; to separate from.

A message that seems to convey no meaning

To let be or do without interference.

Beds built one above the other

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

Avoid paying;

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

Provide with a bunk;

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;

To transfer something.

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

To remain (behind); to stay.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

To produce leaves or foliage.

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

(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).

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Permission.

(dated) Farewell, departure.

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

To raise; to levy.

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

To cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

To depart; to set out.

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Permission to do something;

The act of departing politely;

Go away from a place;

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Move out of or depart from;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Result in;

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Put into the care or protection of someone;

Leave or give by will after one's death;

Have left or have as a remainder;

Be survived by after one's death;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leave behind unintentionally;