| Verb | 1. | foliate - hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal"forge, hammer - create by hammering; "hammer the silver into a bowl"; "forge a pair of tongues" | |
| 2. | foliate - decorate with leaves | |
| 3. | foliate - coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass"coat, surface - put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface; "coat the cake with chocolate" | |
| 4. | foliate - number the pages of a book or manuscriptnumber - give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis" | |
| 5. | foliate - grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring"make grow, develop - cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple" | |
| Adj. | 1. | foliate - ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital"architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" | |
| 2. | foliate - (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'"leafy - having or covered with leaves; "leafy trees"; "leafy vegetables" | |
| 3. | foliate - (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or stratabedded, stratified - deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock" | |