| VERB | creation | foliate | hammer into thin flat foils |
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| creation | foliate | decorate with leaves | |
| contact | foliate | coat or back with metal foil | |
| communication | foliate, paginate, page | number the pages of a book or manuscript | |
| change | foliate | grow leaves | |
| ADJECTIVE | pert | foliate, foliated | ornamented with foliage or foils |
| all | foliate | (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | |
| all | foliate, foliated, foliaceous | (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata |
| Sounds | fow'liyey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | ornamented with foliage or foils. | |
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| Synonym | foliated | |
| Category | architecture | The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings |
| Spanish | foliado, frondoso | |
| Nouns | foliage | the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants |
| Meaning | (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves. | |
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| Example | "'foliate' is combined with the prefix 'tri' to form the word 'trifoliate'" | |
| Category | botany, phytology | The branch of biology that studies plants |
| Broader | leafy | Having or covered with leaves |
| Meaning | (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata. | |
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| Synonyms | foliated, foliaceous | |
| Broader | stratified, bedded | Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers |
| Meaning | hammer into thin flat foils. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "foliate metal" | |
| Broader | forge, hammer | create by hammering |
| Nouns | foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| foliation | the production of foil by cutting or beating metal / metal into thin leaves | |
| Meaning | decorate with leaves. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Broader | decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour / colour, etc. |
| Nouns | foliation, foliage | (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament |
| Meaning | coat or back with metal foil. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "foliate glass" | |
| Broader | coat, surface | Put a coat on |
| Nouns | foil | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| foliation | the work of coating glass with metal / metal foil | |
| Meaning | Number the pages of a book or manuscript. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | paginate, page | |
| Broader | number | Give numbers to |
| Spanish | compaginar, foliar, paginar | |
| Catalan | compaginar | |
| Meaning | Grow leaves. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "the tree foliated in Spring" | |
| Broader | develop, make grow | Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development |
| Spanish | follar | |
| Catalan | follar | |
| Nouns | foliage | the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants |
| foliation | (botany) the process of forming leaves | |
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