FOLIATE

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ornamented with foliage or foils

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

foliate; foliated

Context example:

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)

Sense 2

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

Synonyms:

foliaceous; foliate; foliated

Similar:

bedded; stratified (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers)

• FOLIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they foliate    ... he / she / it foliates   
Past simple: foliated   
Past participle: foliated   
-ing form: foliating   

Sense 1

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

Derivation:

foil (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal)

foliation (the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves)

Sense 2

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

Derivation:

foliage; foliation ((architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament)

Sense 3

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

Derivation:

foil (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal)

foliation (the work of coating glass with metal foil)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Number the pages of a book or manuscript

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

foliate; page; paginate

Hypernyms (to "foliate" is one way to...):

number (give numbers to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

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

Derivation:

foliage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

foliation ((botany) the process of forming leaves)