Sekirov Dictionary

fold

UK /ˈfəʊld/US /foʊld/

verb21

  1. to lay one side of a piece of paper or clothes back over the other, making two layers
  2. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
  3. To become folded; to form folds.
  4. To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
  5. To fail, to collapse, to disband.
  6. Of a company, to cease to trade.
  7. To give way on a point or in an argument.
  8. To withdraw from betting.
  9. To withdraw or quit in general.
  10. To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
  11. (informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
  12. To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
  13. To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
  14. To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
  15. (figurative) To cover up, to conceal.
  16. To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
  17. To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
  18. (figurative) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
  19. To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
  20. (no longer used) To plait or mat (hair) together.
  21. (no longer used) To ensnare, to capture.

noun24

  1. A bend or crease.
  2. A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
  3. 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.
  4. A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
  5. 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.
  6. (figurative) Home, family.
  7. (figurative) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
  8. An act of folding.
  9. Any correct move in origami.
  10. 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.
  11. The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
  12. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
  13. A layer, such as of of folded or wrapped cloth.
  14. A coil of a snake’s body.
  15. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  16. Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
  17. An enclosure or dwelling generally.
  18. One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
  19. A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
  20. Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  21. A clasp, embrace.
  22. One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
  23. (dialect, literary) The Earth; earth; land; country.
  24. (no longer used) A wrapping or covering.
forms

folded · folden · folding · foldeth · folds · foldest

Phrases with fold

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