foliate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to leaves.
2. sıfat 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. sıfat Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
4. sıfat Of a plant: having leaves.
5. sıfat Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
6. sıfat Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
7. sıfat In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

   “foliate gold”

8. isim A logocyclic curve.
9. fiil 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.
10. fiil 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.

    “to foliate a looking-glass”

11. fiil To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).

    “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.”

12. fiil To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.

    “[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.”

13. fiil To split into layers or leaves.
14. fiil Of a plant: to produce leaves.