folio
IPA: fˈoʊɫioʊ
noun
- A leaf of a book or manuscript.
- A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
- (by extension, printing)
- A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
- A sheet of paper folded in half.
- A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 centimetres in height.
- A wrapper for loose papers.
- (accounting) A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
- (law, dated) A leaf containing a certain number of words; hence, a certain number of words in a piece of writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
verb
- (transitive) To put a serial number on (a folio or page, or on all the folios or pages of a book); to foliate, to page.
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Examples of "folio" in Sentences
- And the two last are in _Golfrieds's_ Historical Chronicles, in German, folio, 1674.
- English readers, therefore, are driven to the grand edition of the Makámát in folio by Baron Silvestre de
- The folio is also filled with extracts from letters and reports that mention, support, and legitimate Gilchrists work.
- Jean-Félix Watin, “Avis à MM. les souscripteurs de l'in folio de L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur ...” in Supplément (Paris, 1773), 77.
- There is, however, quite a discrepancy in folio numbers from what is cited in Madden and the numbering system currently in place in the manuscript back
- His great folio is still consulted by serious philologists, and though many of his etymologies are comic, he often anticipates the conclusions of the most erudite modern research.
- In consequence of the many and varied sizes of papers now manufactured, the terms folio, quarto or 4to., octavo or 8vo., twelvemo or 12mo., and so on, as indicating the number of folds in the printed sheets, can no longer be relied upon as a definite guide to the sizes of books, hence the change, as follows: --
- They were, with their arms, immediately to call at my house, for fear I should perhaps run away, and he came with a letter from Von Bissing-three great pages in folio, written in German characters-and he said, "Cardinal, I am despatched from the Governor-General, and you have to give an answer to the questions written here."
- In a copy of the works of Petrarch in Latin, folio, 1501, occurs on the title: "Liber Antonij kressen juris vtriusq. doctoris emptus venecijs ligatus nurenberge Mcccccv;" and the noble old volume (now in the British Museum) is accompanied by a memoir of Kressen, printed about 1600, of uniform size, with a splendid portrait of the interesting Nüremberger.
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