| verb | hammer into thin flat foils “foliate metal” |
| verb | decorate with leaves |
| verb | coat or back with metal foil “foliate glass” |
| verb | number the pages of a book or manuscript |
| verb | grow leaves “the tree foliated in Spring” |
| adjective | ornamented with foliage or foils “foliate tracery” |
| adjective | (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'” |
| adjective | (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata |
| foil | noun | a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal |
| foliation | noun | the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves |
| foliage | noun | (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament |
| pagination | noun | the system of numbering pages |
| page | noun | one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains |
| paging | noun | the system of numbering pages |
| folium | noun | a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock |