fold

Meaning

Verb

1. To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
2. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
3. To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
4. To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
5. To become folded; to form folds.
6. (informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
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 fail, to collapse, to disband.
11. Of a company, to cease to trade.
12. To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
13. (obsolete) To plait or mat (hair) together.
14. To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
15. To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
16. To cover up, to conceal.
17. (obsolete) To ensnare, to capture.

Noun

1. An act of folding.
2. An act of folding.
3. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
4. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
5. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
6. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
7. (obsolete) That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
8. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
9. A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
13. Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
14. A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
15. One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.

Noun

1. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
2. Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
3. An enclosure or dwelling generally.
4. A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
5. Home, family.
6. 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.
7. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.

Noun

The Earth; earth; land, country.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfəʊld/

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

Sentences

The tympanum and supratympanic fold are distinct .