foliate

英 ['fəʊlɪeɪt] 美 ['foʊlɪˌeɪt]

• adj. 叶状的；层状的
• v. 打成箔；加叶饰；给（书页）编号；生叶；生叶；裂成薄片

英英释义

Adjective:

1. ornamented with foliage or foils;

   "foliate tracery"
   "a foliated capital"
   

2. (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves;

   "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"
   

3. (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

Verb:

1. hammer into thin flat foils;

   "foliate metal"
   

2. decorate with leaves

3. coat or back with metal foil;

   "foliate glass"
   

4. number the pages of a book or manuscript

5. grow leaves;

   "the tree foliated in Spring"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Its foliate meander in white and rose combines a vigorous sinuosity with a pronounced rhythmic irregularity giving a lively vitality to the pattern.
   白色叶状波纹和玫瑰花结合达到了显著的波状起伏效果,其具有鲜明节奏感的不规则性给该图案增添了栩栩如生的活力。

经典引文

• These [euphemisms] are foliating like triffids.

  出自： fig.

近反义词

【近义词】

• leaf 页
• foliated 有叶形装饰的...
• page 页
• foliaceous 叶状的
• paginate 标页数