Fold
Definitions
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- The Earth; earth; land, country.
- An act of folding.
- Any correct move in origami.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
- A bend or crease.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Home, family.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- 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.
- A wrapping or covering.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- 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.
- 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.
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- 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.
Conjugation
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Equivalents
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Cymraegplygu
Esperantofaldi
Suomiantaa periksikaatuakarsinakipatalaskoslaskostaalopettaanostellapoimupuohdesulkeataitetaitekohtataitellataitostaittaataittotaittumakohtaviikata
ગુજરાતીવાળવું
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻiʻopi
Italianoamalgamarecederecessarechiudereconcederedarla vintalasciare caderepassarepiegapiegaresciogliere
ភាសាខ្មែរបត់
Lingálakumba
සිංහලරැලි
Shqippalos
Examples
“give⟳ the bedsheets a fold⟳ before putting them in the cupboard.”
“After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option was probably a fold⟳.”
“[…] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man; Who broke our fair companionship, And spread⟳ his mantle dark and cold; And wrapt thee formless in the fold⟳, […]”
“[…] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number⟳ of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […]”
“[…] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […]”
“The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become⟳ gentle undulations”
“Newspaper editors know⟳ the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold⟳,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.”
“For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold⟳" is considered very important news. In web page design⟳, the fold⟳ signifies the place⟳ at which the user has to scroll down to get⟳ more information.”
“It was Erik Meijer who coined the name⟳ hylomorphism to describe⟳ a computation that consists of a fold⟳ after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure⟳ and the fold⟳ consumes it.”
“Leaps o're the fence with ease into the fold⟳.”
““I came down like⟳ a wolf on the fold⟳, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise⟳ attack, and I’d no wish⟳ that the garrison, forewarned, should escape⟳. …””
“And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold⟳: them also I must bring⟳, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold⟳, and one shepheard.”
“Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold⟳, Moyes' mood will not have⟳ improved as Liverpool took the lead⟳ in the third minute.”
“Most recently, in his ambitious 2015 book, Leaving the Jewish Fold⟳, Endelman significantly enlarges his purview in both time and space to broadly survey the phenomenon of Jewish conversion from early medieval to postmodern times […]”
“In a first phase of foreign policy, after 1945, my country sought to regain⟳ former enemies’ trust⟳. We are forever grateful that they extended their hand to us, readmitting us into the global fold⟳.”
““I hope⟳ that eventually Elon comes back into the fold⟳. Maybe that’s not possible now because he’s gone so nuclear,” the vice-president said.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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