FOLIATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does foliate mean?
• FOLIATE (adjective)
The adjective FOLIATE has 3 senses:
1. ornamented with foliage or foils
2. (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
3. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
Familiarity information: FOLIATE used as an adjective is uncommon.
• FOLIATE (verb)
The verb FOLIATE has 5 senses:
1. hammer into thin flat foils
2. decorate with leaves
3. coat or back with metal foil
4. number the pages of a book or manuscript
5. grow leaves
Familiarity information: FOLIATE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• FOLIATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Ornamented with foliage or foils
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
foliate; foliated
Context examples:
foliate tracery / a foliated capital
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Pertainym:
foliage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Meaning:
(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
Context example:
'foliate' is combined with the prefix 'tri' to form the word 'trifoliate'
Similar:
leafy (having or covered with leaves)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Meaning:
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
Synonyms:
foliated; foliaceous; foliate
Similar:
bedded; stratified (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers)
• FOLIATE (verb)
Meaning:
Hammer into thin flat foils
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
foliate metal
Hypernyms (to "foliate" is one way to...):
forge; hammer (create by hammering)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Decorate with leaves
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "foliate" is one way to...):
adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Coat or back with metal foil
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
foliate glass
Hypernyms (to "foliate" is one way to...):
coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Number the pages of a book or manuscript
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
paginate; page; foliate
Hypernyms (to "foliate" is one way to...):
number (give numbers to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Grow leaves
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the tree foliated in Spring
Hypernyms (to "foliate" is one way to...):
develop; make grow (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
