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Is foliate a Scrabble word?

Yes, foliate is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of foliate?

Definition

adj (English)

1. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.Synonyms: foliaceous, leaf-shaped, leafyAntonyms: nonfoliate

2. (botany)Synonyms: leafy, leavedAntonyms: nonfoliate

3. (botany)

4. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).Synonyms: foliated

5. (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.Examples: "foliate gold"; "But note, that all Solide Bodies are Cleauing, more or leſſe: And that they loue better the Touch of ſomevvhat that is Tangible, than of Aire. For VVater, in ſmall quantity, cleaueth to any Thing that is Solide; […] And therfore Gold Foliate, or any Metall Foliate, cleaueth: […]"; "[T]he ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the povverfulleſt action of natural heat, […] as is very evident, not only in the ſvvallowing of golden bullets but in the leſſer and foliate diviſions thereof, paſſing the ſtomack and guts even as it doth the throat, that is vvithout abatement of vveight or conſiſtences; […]"obsolete

noun (English)

1. (geometry) A logocyclic curve.

verb (English)

1. (transitive)transitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "to foliate a looking-glass"; "[T]he production of the Rainbovv is as much to be aſcribed to the reflection of the concave ſurface of the air, as to the refraction of the Globular drops: this vvill be evidently manifeſt by theſe Experiments, if you foliate that part of a Glaſs-ball that is to reflect an Iris, as in the Carteſian Experiment, above mention'd, the reflections vvill be abundantly more ſtrong, and the colours more vivid: […]"transitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch."transitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "[I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv."obsoletetransitive

5. (intransitive)intransitive

6. (intransitive)intransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "foliate"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "foliate"?

Scrabble
10 points
F4
O1
L1
I1
A1
T1
E1
Words With Friends
11 points
F4
O1
L2
I1
A1
T1
E1

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