verb
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To form into leaves.
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To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
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To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver.
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to foliate a looking-glass
adjective
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(of a rock) Having a structure of thin layers.
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Decorated with foliage.
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Having notes added above or below, as in a plain-song melody.
Examples of foliated in a Sentence
Most of these foliated rocks, however, are doubtless of Archean age.
The principal source of bismuth is the native metal, which is occasionally met with as a mineral, usually in reticulated and arborescent shapes or as foliated and granular masses with a crystalline fracture.
In the reduction by metallic zinc, about 3 grammes of granulated or foliated zinc are placed in the flask, which is closed with a small funnel; when the iron is reduced, add 10 cc. of sulphuric acid, and as soon as all the zinc is dissolved the solution is ready for titration.