Definition of "foliate" in English

adjective

1. Of or relating to leaves.

2. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.

3. Of a plant: having leaves.

4. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.

5. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).

6. (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

   • foliate gold

noun

1. (geometry) A logocyclic curve.

verb

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.

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.

   • 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.”).

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

5. To split into layers or leaves.

6. Of a plant: to produce leaves.