Meaning of Fold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
2. The Earth; earth; land, country.
   dialectal, obsolete, poetic, uncountable
3. An act of folding.
4. Any correct move in origami.
5. Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
6. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
7. A bend or crease.
8. An enclosure or dwelling generally.
9. A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
10. A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
    collective
11. A clasp, embrace.
12. Home, family.
    figuratively
13. A coil of a snake’s body.
14. 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.
15. A wrapping or covering.
    obsolete
16. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
    figuratively
17. One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
18. A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
    broadly
22. Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
23. A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
24. One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.

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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.”

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