Sentence examples for foliated from inspiring English sources
The word "foliated" is correct in written English
It is used to describe something that has leaves or leaf-like structures, often in a botanical or geological context. Example: "The foliated rock displayed distinct layers that were easily visible."
adjective
Having a structure of thin layers
Although the origin of this structure is not fully understood, it is analogous to the process that produces foliated structures in metamorphic rocks.
The ice crystals in strongly deformed, foliated ice invariably have a preferred orientation, relative to the stress directions.
The forms of ground ice can be grouped into five main types: (1) pore ice, (2) segregated, or Taber, ice, (3) foliated, or wedge, ice, (4) pingo ice, and (5) buried ice. 1. Pore ice, which fills or partially fills pore spaces in the ground, is formed by pore water freezing in situ with no addition of water.
3. Foliated ground ice, or wedge ice, is the term for large masses of ice growing in thermal contraction cracks in permafrost.
Common decorative motifs of the period include shells, satyrs, cherubs, festoons and garlands, mythological themes, cartouches (ornamental frames), foliated scrolls, and dolphins.
"Here we rest" was the original motto of Isbell's home state, Alabama, while the music locates the ex-Drive-By Trucker in a forest of local allusions foliated by the 400 Unit's ability to tinker, nicely but slightly blandly, with Alabama's indigenous musical genres: soul, rock, country, backwoods folk.
"The stories just foliate off each other, and mythology and folklore are so confidently and freely appropriated, with such chutzpah".
These include increased surface area (dendritic, foliate, pleated, or "double" gills), rich vascularization of respiratory surfaces, ventilating mechanisms (current-directing exopods and baler plates of the maxillae and maxillipeds), and presence in the blood of special respiratory pigments such as hemocyanin (which contains copper).
The central medallion and its surrounding frieze contain scenes of a drinking contest between Bacchus and Hercules; between the frieze and the edge of the bowl is a row of 16 gold coins, each framed in a foliate wreath.
The patterns were flowing ribbons of form (generally of formalized foliate design) rather than the angular shapes typical of other types of parterre; and the various beds into which the parterre was divided by paths were coordinated in a single symmetrical design.
In the late 11th century in southern England and in northern France a type of initial letter emerged in which men, monsters, beasts, and birds climb and struggle in "tanglewoods" of rinceaux (ornamental motifs consisting of sinuous and scrolling foliate branches).
