foliate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfəʊliət/|/-eɪt/    美 /ˈfoʊliət/|/-ˌeɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A logocyclic curve.
动词 v.
  1. To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate. transitive
  2. To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver. transitive
    — to foliate a looking-glass
  3. To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”). transitive
    — All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.
  4. To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet. obsolete,transitive
    — [I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv.
  5. To split into layers or leaves. intransitive
  6. Of a plant: to produce leaves. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to leaves.
  2. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
    — In the Laureat draughts of ſculpture and picture, the leaves and foliate vvorks are commonly thus contrived, vvhich is but in imitation of the Pulvinaria, and ancient pillovv-vvork, obſervable in Ionick peeces, about columns, temples and altars.
  3. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.; Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
  4. Of a plant: having leaves.
  5. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
  6. Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
  7. In the form of a foil or thin sheet. obsolete
    — foliate gold

词形变化

more foliate comparative most foliate superlative foliates plural foliates present,singular,third-person foliating participle,present foliated participle,past foliated past

词汇关系

衍生词
acutifoliate adversifoliate alternifoliate angustifoliate bifoliate cochlearifoliate decemfoliate difoliate foliate curve foliation latifoliate monofoliate multifoliate nonfoliate paucifoliate plurifoliate quadrifoliate quinquefoliate rotundifoliate septemfoliate subfoliate tetrafoliate unifoliate defoliate refoliate effoliate exfoliate foliated foliating foliator unfoliated
相关词
foil foliaceous foliar folio folium

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin foliātus (“having leaves, leafy, leaved”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), a participial adjective derived from folium (“leaf; (Late Latin) leaf or sheet of paper”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”) or *dʰelh₁- (“to be green”)).
词源 2
From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to folia + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
词源 3
From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1)
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