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foliate - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective adjective adjective Geology Exhibiting foliation.intransitive verb intransitive verb intransitive verb intransitive verb intransitive verb intransitive verb intransitive verb intransitive verb
from The Century Dictionary.
architecture : To adorn by means of foliation. See foliation , 7. foil , 7. foliate a looking-glass. botany , leafy; furnished with leaves: as, a foliate stalk. zoology , expanded in a leaf-like form; foliaceous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective (Bot.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.adjective (Geom.) Same as Folium .transitive verb transitive verb
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective leaves adjective leaf adjective geology foliated verb verb verb tin and quicksilver .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb adjective verb verb adjective verb adjective verb
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin foliātus , bearing foliage, from folium , leaf; see folium.]
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Examples
The action plates, which are engraved in foliate scroll, can have either a multicolored case-hardened finish or a flat-silver coin finish.
Double-Gun Lust 2005
The capitals topping the pillars are of a simple foliate style.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
Until the original Doric column was conceived and built, all temple pillars had been trees, and the fluted stone, with its foliate embellishment below the roof, audaciously mimicked them.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
Somehow the names added to the beauty of the plants like the foliate illuminations on the initial letters of medieval manuscripts, or honeysuckle spiralling up a living tree.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
Pigeons glide through foliate passageways, search for scraps at the feet of three old women on a bench, two in black, one in flowers and dots.
Rittenhouse Square: excert from work-in-progress 2009
Until the original Doric column was conceived and built, all temple pillars had been trees, and the fluted stone, with its foliate embellishment below the roof, audaciously mimicked them.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
Pigeons glide through foliate passageways, search for scraps at the feet of three old women on a bench, two in black, one in flowers and dots.
Rittenhouse Square: excert from work-in-progress 2009
Somehow the names added to the beauty of the plants like the foliate illuminations on the initial letters of medieval manuscripts, or honeysuckle spiralling up a living tree.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
One is from there free to hang the spatial surfaces on this framework as one want (shift functions) and how they foliate together (lapse functions).
Does Space Expand? Sean 2008
The dusty pink dress, featuring layered tulle with sequins and metallic pink and silver foliate embroidery, was originally made for Suzanne Godart Cella, a couture collector and children's clothing designer.
A Piece of Yves Saint Laurent 2008
reesetee commented on the word foliate
Leaf-shaped.
November 14, 2007