folio

1. A leaf of a book or manuscript.

   a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

2. A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.

3. (broadly)A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.

4. (broadly)A sheet of paper folded in half.

5. (broadly)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

6. A wrapper for loose papers.

7. A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

8. A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.

9. (dated)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.

1. The missing folio caused uncertainty about the manuscript's original structure.

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2. The scholar compared two folios to determine which scribes had copied the text.

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3. Where old organs whisper dead arias, while the wind, rattling through the doors, turns over folios, songbooks, and missals.

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