folio
A leaf of a book or manuscriptA leaf of a book or manuscript.
» The missing folio caused uncertainty about the manuscript's original structure.
Значення
значень: 9A leaf of a book or manuscript.
a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
(ширше)A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
(ширше)A sheet of paper folded in half.
(ширше)A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 centimetres in height.
A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages
A wrapper for loose papers.
A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.
(застаріле)A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a piece of writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
Приклади
речень: 3The missing folio caused uncertainty about the manuscript's original structure.
The scholar compared two folios to determine which scribes had copied the text.
Where old organs whisper dead arias, while the wind, rattling through the doors, turns over folios, songbooks, and missals.
Переклади
мов: 1Походження
From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late LatFrom Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Форми
множина: foliosСиноніми
синонімів: 7- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book):leaf
- the system of numbering pages:paginationpage numberpaging