folio — meaning in English

English meaning

• FOIL noun A very thin, flexible sheet of metal, especially aluminum, used for wrapping food.
• folio noun A leaf of a book or manuscript.

Senses

folio is used for these senses in English:

• foil A very thin sheet of metal.
• folio 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.

FOIL — full definition

1. noun A very thin, flexible sheet of metal, especially aluminum, used for wrapping food.
2. verb To prevent a plan, attempt, or plot from succeeding.
3. noun A person or thing that highlights another's qualities by contrast, especially in a story.
4. noun A thin fencing sword with a blunted tip, used in the sport of fencing.

folio — full definition

1. noun A leaf of a book or manuscript.
2. noun A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
3. noun A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
4. noun A sheet of paper folded in half.

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