fold
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)folds, folded, folding
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other“fold up the newspaper”“turn up your collar”Synonyms: fold upturn upOpposite openMore general change surfaceMore specific wrinkle, crimp, cross, collapse, pleat, ruffle, corrugate, furrow, tuck
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating“Fold the egg whites into the batter”More general integrate, incorporate
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating“The owners decided to move and to close the factory”“My business closes every night at 8 P.M.”“close up the shop”Synonyms: close upcloseshut downclose downMore general discontinue, stopMore specific adjourn, withdraw
- confine in a fold, like sheepSynonyms: pen upMore general restrain, confine
- become folded or folded up“The bed folds in a jiffy”Synonyms: fold upMore general changeMore specific rumple, crumple
Noun (7)folds
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding“a fold in the napkin”“a crease in his trousers”“a plication on her blouse”“a flexure of the colon”“a bend of his elbow”Synonyms: creaseplicationflexurecrimpbendType of angular shape, angularityKinds pleat, pucker, accordion fold, kink
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given churchSynonyms: congregationfaithfulType of social groupKinds flockMember of denomination
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rockSynonyms: foldingType of geological process, geologic process
- a group of sheep or goatsSynonyms: flockType of animal groupMembers sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)Synonyms: plicaType of structure, anatomical structureKinds vocal cord, epicanthus, tentorium, ruga
- a pen for sheepSynonyms: sheepfoldsheep pensheepcoteType of pen
- the act of folding“he gave the napkins a double fold”Synonyms: folding
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Translations
Verb bend over
- Spanish
- plegar
- French
- plier
- German
- falten
- Italian
- piegare
- Portuguese
- dobrar
- Turkish
- katlamak
- Russian
- перегиба́ть peregibátʹ
- Arabic
- طَوَى ṭawā
- Chinese
- 折叠 zhédié
- Japanese
- 畳む tatamu
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- vouwen
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- składać
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- vika
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- διπλώνω diplóno
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- 접다 jeopda
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- lipat
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- gấp
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- hajt
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- dobrar
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- 折疊 zhédié
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- plegar
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- přeložit
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- folde
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- faldi
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- taittaa
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Noun bend or crease
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG. faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. fålla, Goth. falþan, cf. Gr. δι-πλάσιος twofold, Skr. puṭa a fold. Cf. Fauteuil.
1. To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
As a vesture shalt thou fold them up.— Heb. i. 12.
2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
A face folded in sorrow.— John Webster
We will descend and fold him in our arms.— William Shakespeare
4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.— William Shakespeare
To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold. 1 Kings vi. 34.
Origin: From Fold, verb In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to fealdan to fold.
1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
Mummies... shrouded in a number of folds of linen.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.— J. D. Dana.
2. Times or repetitions; — used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.— William Shakespeare
Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.
Origin: OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.
1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.— John Milton
2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
There shall be one fold and one shepherd.— John x. 16.
The very whitest lamb in all my fold.— Alfred Tennyson
3. A boundary; a limit. obsolete Thomas Creech
Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.
To confine in a fold, as sheep.
To confine sheep in a fold. rare
The star that bids the shepherd fold.— John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54