Difference between Folio and Leaf

What is the difference between Folio and Leaf?

Folio as a noun is a leaf of a book or manuscript. while Leaf as a noun is the usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

Folio

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A leaf of a book or manuscript. A sheet of paper once folded. A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 cm in height. The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand. A page of a book. a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number. 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.

Leaf

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To produce leaves; put forth foliage.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).(in plural leaves) Tea leaves.A flat section used to extend the size of a table.A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.In a tree, a node that has no descendants.

Example sentence: I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

We hope you now know whether to use Folio or Leaf in your sentence.

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