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Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English. Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included. Wiktionary is a wiki, which means that you can edit it, and all the content is dual-licensed under both the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and the GNU Free Documentation License. Before you contribute, you may wish to read through some of our help pages, and bear in mind that we do things quite differently from other wikis. In particular, we have strict layout conventions and inclusion criteria. Learn how to start a page, how to edit entries, experiment in the sandbox and visit our Community Portal to see how you can participate in the development of Wiktionary.	Word of the dayfor adj Of or relating to leaves. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.(geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop. (botany) Of a plant: having leaves. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”) (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet. foliate v (transitive) To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate. To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver. (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”). (obsolete) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet. (intransitive) To split into layers or leaves. (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves. ← yesterday \| About Word of the Day • Nominate a word • Leave feedback	tomorrow → Behind the scenes Community portal A page containing everything you wanted to know about Wiktionary. Discussion rooms A collection of pages for the discussion of Wiktionary and the words it contains. Things to do • Help • Guidelines


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