Folio
['fəʊlɪəʊ] or ['folɪo]
Definition
(noun.) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages; 'the first folio of Shakespeare's plays'.
Editor: Marilyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript.
(n.) A sheet of paper once folded.
(n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
(n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
(n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
(n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Definition
n. a sheet of paper once folded: a book of such sheets: the size of such a book: one of several sizes of paper adapted for folding once into well-proportioned leaves: (book-k.) a page in an account-book or two opposite pages numbered as one: (law) a certain number of words taken as a basis for computing the length of a document: a wrapper for loose papers.—adj. pertaining to or containing paper only once folded.—v.t. to number the pages of: to mark off the end of every folio in law copying.—In folio in sheets folded but once: in the form of a folio.
Editor: Maggie
Examples
- The Will has not been copied yet into the great Folio Registers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have admired to see that in the last century a folio, _Burton on Melancholy_, went through six editions in about forty years. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Copies of this brochure are as scarce to-day as First Folio Shakespeares, and command prices equal to those of other American first editions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a folio, _pro patria_ size, in pica, with long-primer notes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Forty-two folio. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They consisted of two large folio leaves of paper. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Edited by Bernice