English to Xhosa Meaning of foliate - foliate

Foliate :

foliate

Exfoliate :: exfoliateExfoliates :: exfoliates

← Foliage

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Definitions of foliate in English

Verb(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
Adjective(1) ornamented with foliage or foils(2) (often used as a combining form(3) (especially of metamorphic rock

Examples of foliate in English

(1) Set against white plaster walls, the bases and ornate foliate capitals of the columns were gilded, and their shafts were painted a ‘straw’ color.(2) Apart from foliate designs, Renaissance patterns diffused relatively slowly through northern Europe and Spain.(3) The lower tier of the fountain had intertwined dolphin supports and was raised on a finely cast foliate stem.(4) Somasteroids typically are foliate with ventral series of so-called virgals extending from ambulacrals to marginals.(5) Again, the foliate , grooved teeth do not meet diplodocomorph specs.(6) The fluted stiles are embellished with carved foliate scrolls.(7) A foliate tricephalic form can be seen at Llandaff Cathedral.(8) At Osterley what are central fruiting grapevines in the carpet are foliate swags in the drawing.(9) Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background.(10) Calculated tangles of foliate and linear patterns hug the edges of several of the paintings, thinning out toward the center.(11) Most of Romsey's foliate heads are closer to animal than to human form: this one is very cat-like, and is the source of copious vegetation.(12) Many interpretations of the meaning and origin of the Green Man have been offered since Lady Raglan first applied the term to the human foliate head.(13) The book was foliated in pencil below the text in the lower right-hand corner.(14) The courtyard was foliated with multiple kinds of bushes and trees.(15) The newly discovered manuscript had in fact been foliated and the figures are omitted from the plates.(16) The Santan Mountains study site is also primarily composed of granodiorite, but the boulders are not as extensive or foliated as in the South Mountains.

Related Phrases of foliate

(1) foliate ::

foliate

Related Phrases of foliate

(1) foliate ::

foliate

Synonyms

Adjective

1. foliated ::

foliated

Verb

2. page ::

page

3. paginate ::

paginate

Different Forms

exfoliate, exfoliates

English to Xhosa Dictionary: foliate

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