1.  fold(n = noun.shape) bend, crease, crimp, flexure, plication - an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a bend of his elbow"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a fold in the napkin"; "a plication on her blouse"
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;

3.  fold(n = noun.process) folding - a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock;

4.  fold(n = noun.group) flock - a group of sheep or goats;

5.  fold(n = noun.body) plica - a folded part (as in skin or muscle);

6.  fold(n = noun.artifact) sheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold - a pen for sheep;
Derived form verb fold₄

7.  fold(n = noun.act) folding - the act of folding; "he gave the napkins a double fold"
Derived form verb fold₁, verb fold₅

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"
Antonym: unfold
Derived form noun fold₁, noun fold₇, noun folder₂, noun folding₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  fold(v = verb.change) - incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
Sample sentences: They %s the sheets

3.  fold(v = verb.social) close, close down, close up, shut down - cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "close up the shop"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"
Sample sentences: The business is going to %s

4.  fold(v = verb.contact) pen up - confine in a fold, like sheep;
Derived form noun fold₆
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Something ----s

5.  fold(v = verb.change) fold up - become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"
Derived form noun fold₇
Sample sentences: The sheets didn't %s; These fabrics %s 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]

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]

4.  To cover or wrap up; to conceal. [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]

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]

1.  An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. [1913 Webster]

2.  A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's 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]

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.