fold
IPA: fˈoʊɫd
noun
- An act of folding.
- Any correct move in origami.
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
- A bend or crease.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- A clasp, embrace.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- (obsolete) A wrapping or covering.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plait or mat (hair) together.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, obsolete) To ensnare, to capture.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
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Examples of "fold" in Sentences
- He folded up a map.
- The paper is folded into half.
- A folded mast extends from the prow.
- It is the reciprocal of the e folding time.
- The purpose of this segmentation was two folded.
- The folding top was mohair and the windshield folded.
- The sheets were joined together and folded into impermeable layers.
- Convolute folds are formed on either side of the sheet metal strip.
- The cloth passes in a folded zigzag state through the another cloth passage.
- The majority of vocal fold lesions primarily arise in the cover of the folds.
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