(n.) A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete record consists of two hardback foolscap notebooks that provide a fascinating insight into the medical practice of the times when the industrial revolution was just getting under way.
(2) "Got a pile of CVs here," he grunts during the introductory smackdown, waving a miffed baronial paw over a pile of dog-eared foolscap.
(3) While the old bag held the official foolscap double-entry notebook, a bunch of tea-stained bank statements (sheets 24 and 37 missing), the nation's cheque stubs and the speech, there's no need now for anything more than a laptop, and a brick to give the thing a bit of heft, while the chancellor waves it in the wind.
Quarto
Definition:
(a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
(n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Example Sentences:
(1) We reported the identification, purification and characterization of a low molecular weight protein (Ch 21) expressed in vitro by differentiating chondrocytes at a late stage of development and observed in vivo in the growth plate region of the long bones at the border between hypertrophic cartilage and newly formed bone (Descalzi Cancedda, F., P. Manduca, C. Tacchetti, P. Fossa, R. Quarto, R. Cancedda, J.
(2) The Ch21 protein is one of the marker proteins whose synthesis and secretion by differentiating tibia chondrocytes is progressively increased during chicken embryogenesis (Descalzi-Cancedda, F., Manduca, P., Tacchetti, C., Fossa, P., Quarto, R. and Cancedda, R. (1988) J.
(3) Acquisition of a transformed phenotype was correlated with the expression of high levels of bFGF (Quarto et al., 1989).
(4) Ultrastructural examination of this in vitro formed cartilage showed numerous matrix vesicles associated with the extracellular matrix (C. Tacchetti, R. Quarto, L. Nitsch, D. J. Hartmann, and R. Cancedda, 1987, J.
(5) There is a long article he wrote as a young reporter about a shipwreck, reprinted verbatim; extended sections on Ulysses S Grant, which read more like a projected Grant biography than a Twain autobiography; pages minutely describing the Villa di Quarto in Florence, and so on.