What's the difference between folio and olio?

Folio


Definition:

  • (n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript.
  • (n.) A sheet of paper once folded.
  • (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).

Olio


Definition:

  • (n.) A dish of stewed meat of different kinds.
  • (n.) A mixture; a medley.
  • (n.) A collection of miscellaneous pieces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results demonstrated that gC carries O-glycosidically linked oligosaccharides in addition to the N-linked di- and triantennary glycans previously described (F. Serafini-Cessi, F. Dall'Olio, L. Pereira, and G. Campadelli-Fiume, J. Virol.
  • (2) The other spiders to be reported as causing bites were Hadronyche adelaidensis, Misgolas andrewsi, Aganippe subtristis, Olios calligaster, Isopeda pessleri, Eriophora sp., Phonognatha graeffei, Holoplatys sp., Breda jovialis, Opisthoncus sp., Lycosa sp.
  • (3) There are too many programmes both on radio and television featuring men shouting at one another ( Today , Newsnight ), and far too few voices and faces belonging to women over the age of 45 (and sticking Edwina Currie, Lulu, Nancy Dell'Olio and Anita Dobson on Strictly feels like the worst kind of sop to me).
  • (4) Must one take Nancy Dell'Olio as one's fashion icon, or must one tug one's V-neck down to one's belly button and bellow: "Hey!
  • (5) A beta 1,4-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase very similar to that previously described in urine of Sd(a+) individuals (F. Serafini-Cessi, N. Malagolini, and F. Dall'Olio.

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