1. fold(n = noun.shape) bend, crease, crimp, flexure, plication - 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"
is a kind of angular shape, angularity
has particulars: plait, pleat, kink, twirl, twist, pucker, ruck
Derived form verb fold1
2. fold(n = noun.group) congregation, faithful - a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; Array
is a kind of social group
is a member of denomination
has particulars: flock
3. fold(n = noun.process) folding - a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock; Array
is a kind of geologic process, geological process
4. fold(n = noun.group) flock - a group of sheep or goats; Array
is a kind of animal group
5. fold(n = noun.body) plica - a folded part (as in skin or muscle); Array
is a kind of anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
has particulars: epicanthic fold, epicanthus, plica vocalis, vocal band, vocal cord, vocal fold, ruga, tentorium
6. fold(n = noun.artifact) sheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold - a pen for sheep; Array
is a kind of pen
Derived form verb fold4
7. fold(n = noun.act) folding - the act of folding; "he gave the napkins a double fold"
is a kind of change of shape
has particulars: pleating, plication
Derived forms verb fold5, verb fold1
1. fold(v = verb.contact) fold up, turn up - bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"
is one way to change surface
Antonym: unfold
Derived forms noun fold7, noun fold1, noun folder2, noun folding3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
2. fold(v = verb.change) Array - incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
is one way to incorporate, integrate
Sample sentences:
They fold the sheets
3. fold(v = verb.social) close, close down, close up, shut down - 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"
Sample sentences:
The business is going to fold
4. fold(v = verb.contact) pen up - confine in a fold, like sheep; Array
is one way to confine, hold, restrain
Derived form noun fold6
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s
5. fold(v = verb.change) fold up - become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"
is one way to change
Derived form noun fold7
Sample sentences:
The sheets didn't fold; These fabrics fold easily
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. [1913 Webster]
"As a vesture shalt thou fold them up." [1913 Webster]
2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair. [1913 Webster]
3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace. [1913 Webster]
"A face folded in sorrow." [1913 Webster]
"We will descend and fold him in our arms." [1913 Webster]
4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal. [1913 Webster]
"Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication. [1913 Webster]
"Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen." [1913 Webster]
" Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace. [1913 Webster]
"Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold." [1913 Webster]
1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. [1913 Webster]
"Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold." [1913 Webster]
2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold. [1913 Webster]
" There shall be one fold and one shepherd." [1913 Webster]
" The very whitest lamb in all my fold." [1913 Webster]
3. A boundary; a limit. Creech. [1913 Webster]
To confine in a fold, as sheep. [1913 Webster]
To confine sheep in a fold. [1913 Webster]
"The star that bids the shepherd fold." [1913 Webster]
fold, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. a bend or close (a flexible thing) over upon itself. b (foll. by back, over, down) bend a part of (a flexible thing) in the manner specified (fold down the flap).
2 intr. become or be able to be folded.
3 tr. (foll. by away, up) make compact by folding.
4 intr. (often foll. by up) colloq. a collapse, disintegrate. b (of an enterprise) fail; go bankrupt.
5 tr. poet. embrace (esp. fold in the arms or to the breast).
6 tr. (foll. by about, round) clasp (the arms); wrap, envelop.
7 tr. (foll. by in) mix (an ingredient with others) using a gentle cutting and turning motion.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of folding.
2 a line made by or for folding.
3 a folded part.
4 a hollow among hills.
5 Geol. a curvature of strata.
Idiom:
fold one's arms place one's arms across the chest, side by side or entwined. fold one's hands clasp them. folding door a door with jointed sections, folding on itself when opened. folding money esp. US colloq. banknotes. fold-out an oversize page in a book etc. to be unfolded by the reader.
Derivative:
foldable adj.
fold, n. & v.
--n.
1 = SHEEPFOLD.
2 a body of believers or members of a Church.
--v.tr. enclose (sheep) in a fold.
Etymology:
OE fald
N bisection, bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety, bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi.
N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.
N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
N inclosure, envelope, case, wrapper, girdle, pen, fold, pen fold, in fold, sheep fold, paddock, pound, corral, yard, net, seine net, wall, hedge, hedge row, espalier, fence, pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence, barrier, barricade, gate, gateway, bent, dingle, door, hatch, cordon, prison, dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat.
N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.
N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.
VB fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.
epicanthic fold, false vocal fold, fold up, inferior vocal fold, protective fold, true vocal fold, ventricular fold, vestibular fold, vocal fold