(n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
(n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
(n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
(n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's impossible to say whether Roth would have won the Folio prize if he'd still been writing, but he'd have been in with a good shot.
(2) Target London , a folio of 18 posters, bleakly satirised the Thatcher government’s Protect and Survive nuclear attack directives; the critic Richard Cork described the series as the “most hard-hitting attack on government imbecility”.
(3) It didn't make the original folio because it remained unfinished, and so it's an interesting process, writing the rest of it.
(4) In Cold Blood is reissued this month by the Folio Society .
(5) The Folio prize – I must straightforwardly disclose that I sit on its advisory committee – is open to all works of fiction written in English and published in the UK; an academy of writers and critics will decide on the majority of its entries and provide its judges.
(6) Juvenal's Sixteen Satire s, translated by Peter Green with illustrations by David Hughes, is published on 15 August by the Folio Society.
(7) Illustration by David Hughes taken from The Folio Society edition of The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal.
(8) As Ben Jonson urged in his preface to the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays: "Reader, looke not on his Picture, but his Booke."
(9) The face in the painting, which dates from the right period, resembles that in the engraving by Martin Droeshout the Younger on the frontispiece of the First Folio - which was authenticated as a true likeness by Ben Jonson.
(10) We are talking about several more years of this, right?” “That would be probably be a fair assessment,” responded US government lawyer Joseph Folio, who insisted the executive order setting up the system was only “discretionary” and therefore could not be enforced by the courts.
(11) Concurrent validity was investigated through administration of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (Folio & Fewell, 1983) and the PFMAI (n = 25).
(12) The petitioner is in line like dozens of other detainees and at this point it’s just a matter of time.” Pushed by Judge Lamberth on the point, who said “but we’re not going to tell him where he is in the line”, Folio responded: “I don’t think there is any clear line; it’s a colloquialism.” The publication of Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary in January has attracted worldwide attention and comparisons with Kafka for its calm but surreal descriptions of being trapped inside a brutal system that refuses to explain itself.
(13) The Handmaid's Tale is reissued this month by the Folio Society
(14) 2013's collaborative release with Revenant Records, that compiled the bluegrass, gospel and blues songs released by Paramount Records in the 1920s, was housed in a velvet-lined oak cabinet with LPs kept inside a "laser-etched white birch LP folio" and digital files stored on a brass USB stick.
(15) This is not as if the petitioner languishes in Guantánamo without any right to redress,” said Folio on Tuesday.
(16) The widespread and denied suspicion is that the decision is a response to the creation of the Folio Prize for fiction, open to all fiction works written in English.
(17) The use of Folio Views, a PC DOS based product for free text databases, is explored in three applications in an Integrated Academic Information System (IAIMS): (1) a telephone directory, (2) a grants and contracts newsletter, and (3) nursing care plans.
(18) The effect of disinfection is read best on impression preparations of agar (in aluminum folio).
(19) This study examined the interrater reliability of two raters on the Fine Motor scale of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (Folio & Fewell, 1983).
Leaf
Definition:
(n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
(n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
(n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
(v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(3) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(4) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(5) The nuclear membrane was highly deformed with a leaf-like profile in cross-section, possibly due to an interaction with the rod-like, condensed chromosomes.
(6) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
(7) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(8) Positive cDNA clones isolated from both a pea leaf and embryo lambda gt11 expression library using an antibody raised against the purified lipoamide dehydrogenase proved to be the product of a single gene.
(9) Betel leaf extract at the dose levels used in the present study did not affect the body weight gain among rats.
(10) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
(11) Leaf TBC was usually third while fiber had the least TBC.
(12) Using this estimate, the pure Photosystem I emission spectrum was subtracted from the measured emission spectrum of a flashed leaf to give an emission spectrum representative of pure Photosystem II fluorescence at -196 degrees C. Emission spectra were also measured on flashed leaves which had been illuminated for several hours in continuous light.
(13) The effect of 50% methanolic extract (U-ext) from Bearberry leaf on immuno-inflammation was studied by contact dermatitis caused by picryl chloride (PC-CD) in mice.
(14) Several antisera from rabbits immunized with tobacco smoke components reacted by immunoprecipitation with tobacco smoke or leaf antigens.
(15) DNP treatment reduced ion absorption by leaf tissue.
(16) Instead, cell divisions are gradually restricted to the base of the leaf with localized sites of increased division at the preligule region.
(17) In the leaf-nosed bat, Macrotus californicus, a 4.5-month period of delayed early embryogenesis (October-March) precedes a 3.5-month period of normal embryogenesis (March-June).
(18) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
(19) Northern blot analysis of infected leaf tissue extracts revealed the presence of an oligomeric series of plus RNAs (of monomer size and greater) but minus RNAs were present only as high molecular weight species of heterogeneous size.
(20) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.