folio
a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript.
a volume having pages of the largest size, formerly made from such a sheet.
a leaf of a manuscript or book numbered only on the front side.
a case that, when closed, covers and protects both the screen and the back panel of a mobile device, as a tablet or smartphone.
Printing.
(in a book) the number of each page.
(in a newspaper) the number of each page together with the date and the name of the newspaper.
Bookkeeping. a page of an account book or a left-hand page and a right-hand page facing each other and having the same serial number.
Law. a certain number of words, in the U.S. generally 100, taken as a unit for computing the length of a document.
pertaining to or having the format of a folio: a folio volume.
to number each leaf or page of.
Law. to mark each folio in (a pleading or the like) with the proper number.
Origin of folio
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How to use folio in a sentence
Over the course of nearly 25 years Priore stole roughly 320 items from the library, badly damaging many atlases and folios in the process.
Forget Art and Gems, Thieves Make Discreet Millions at the Library | Candida Moss | May 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastLike yacht and horse racing, wine making is a wildly expensive proposition, says Michael Mondavi, founder of folio Wines.
Now if we double the last 16, it gives us the date of the second folio in 32 and 32 reversed gives us the date of the first folio.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)It was a middle sized folio, of 1,090 pages and sold for three rix dollars a copy.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHe visited us at Thorpe several times, and was unusually well and in good spirits, with sketchbook or folio always in hand.
East Anglia | J. Ewing Ritchie
folio volumes with copper-plates have been written on it; and are not yet all pasted in bandboxes, or slit into spills.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. I. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleThe fourth folio appeared in 1685 or 21 years after the third folio.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for folio
/ (ˈfəʊlɪəʊ) /
a sheet of paper folded in half to make two leaves for a book or manuscript
a book or manuscript of the largest common size made up of such sheets
a leaf of paper or parchment numbered on the front side only
a page number in a book
law a unit of measurement of the length of legal documents, determined by the number of words, generally 72 or 90 in Britain and 100 in the US
NZ a collection of related material
relating to or having the format of a folio: a folio edition
(tr) to number the leaves of (a book) consecutively
Origin of folio
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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