单词 | foliate |
释义 | foliate (once / 14327 pages) 1vadj 2v 3v 4adj WORD FAMILY foliate: bifoliate, foliated, foliating, foliation+/foil: foiled, foiling, foils, foliate/foliation: foliations USAGE EXAMPLESBoxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) One day a tree is ablaze but foliated, and the next it is half-naked with its hibernal bones sticking out. Washington Post(Nov 14, 2016) It was covered with Karr’s handwritten annotations, which to a layman were almost as mysterious as hieroglyphs: “flat felsik dikes,” “dead fresh,” “foliated black rock.” National Geographic(Jul 25, 2016) 1 1v grow leaves the tree foliated in Spring Hyper develop, make grow cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development 2v decorate with leaves Hyper adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. 3adj ornamented with foliage or foils foliate tracery a foliated capital Syn foliated 4adj (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves 2` foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate' Syn leafy having or covered with leaves 1v hammer into thin flat foils foliate metal Hyper forge, hammer create by hammering 2v coat or back with metal foil 3foliate glass Hyper coat, surface put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface v number the pages of a book or manuscript 4Syn|Hyper page, paginate number give numbers to adj (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata Syn foliaceous, foliated bedded, stratified deposited or arranged in horizontal layers |
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