folio

Main Entry:
book [book]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: published document
Synonyms: album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing
Main Entry: number
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unit of the mathematical system
Synonyms: cardinal, character, chiffer, cipher, count, decimal, denominator, digit, emblem, figure, folio, fraction, googol, integer, numeral, numerator, ordinal, prime, representation, sign, statistic, sum, symbol, total, whole number
Notes: use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted
number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money
numerals are symbols; numbers are the things that numerals symbolize
Antonyms: letter
Main Entry: page
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sheet of paper
Synonyms: folio, leaf, recto, side, signature, surface, verso
Notes: a page is one side of a piece of paper; a leaf is the term for a piece of paper with two sides
Main Entry: sheet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coating, covering; page
Synonyms: area, blanket, coat, expanse, film, foil, folio, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, overlay, pane, panel, piece, plate, ply, slab, stratum, stretch, surface, sweep, veneer
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Book.
Category: 2. Conventional means; written language
Synonyms:
-nouns
booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book., part, issue, number, livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal., paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream, chapter, section head, article, paragraph, passage, clause., folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo., encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press (publication)., writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny-a-liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; powt., bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookseller's shop., knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning (knowledge).
-phrases
"among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; "volumes
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Number.
Category: 1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT
Synonyms:
-nouns
number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series., sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient., permutation, combination, variation; election., figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers., power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus., differential, integral, fluxion, fluent.
-adjectives
numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable., proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive., positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.
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