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Foliating
- verb - coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass"
- decorate with leaves
- grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring"
- hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal"
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
Foliation
- noun - (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
- (botany) the process of forming leaves
- (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
- the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
- the work of coating glass with metal foil
Fontanels
- noun - any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus
Forearmed
- verb - arm in advance of a confrontation
Forgather
- verb - collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
Formalins
- noun - a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens
Formalise
- verb - declare or make legally valid
- make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"
Formalism
- noun - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
- the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
- the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
Formalist
- - One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.