Definitions for Fold
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bendnoun

   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"

2. congregation, fold, faithfulnoun

   a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

3. fold, foldingnoun

   a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock

4. flock, foldnoun

   a group of sheep or goats

5. fold, plicanoun

   a folded part (as in skin or muscle)

6. fold, sheepfold, sheep pen, sheepcotenoun

   a pen for sheep

7. fold, foldingverb

   the act of folding

   "he gave the napkins a double fold"

8. fold, fold up, turn upverb

   bend or lay so that one part covers the other

   "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"

9. foldverb

   incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating

   "Fold the egg whites into the batter"

10. close up, close, fold, shut down, close downverb

    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"

11. pen up, foldverb

    confine in a fold, like sheep

12. fold, fold upverb

    become folded or folded up

    "The bed folds in a jiffy"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FOLDnoun

   Etymology: falæd, falð, Saxon.

   1. The ground in which sheep are confined.

   His eyes he open’d, and beheld a field
   Part arable and tilth; whereon were sheaves
   New reap’d; the other part, sheepwalks and folds. John Milton.

   In thy book record their groans,
   Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold
   Slain. John Milton.

   2. The place where sheep are housed.

   Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
   When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;
   And Philomel becometh dumb,
   And all complain of cares to come. Walter Raleigh.

   3. The flock of sheep.

   And this you see I scarcely drag along,
   Who yeaning on the rocks has left her young,
   The hope and promise of my failing fold. John Dryden, Virgil.

   4. A limit; a boundary.

   Secure from meeting, they’re distinctly roll’d;
   Nor leave their seats, and pass the dreadful fold. Thomas Creech.

   5. [From fild , Saxon.] A double; a complication; an involution; one part added to another; one part doubled upon another.

   She in this trice of time
   Commits a thing so monstrous, to dismantle
   So many folds of favour! William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrowded in a number of folds of linen, besmeared with gums. Francis Bacon, N. Hist.

   Not with indented wave,
   Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear
   Circular base of rising folds, that tower’d
   Fold above fold, a surging maze! John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   Let the draperies be nobly spread upon the body, and let the folds be large: the parts should be often traversed by the flowing of the folds. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   With fear and wonder seiz’d, the crowd beholds
   The gloves of death, with seven distinguish’d folds
   Of tough bull hides. John Dryden, Virg. Æn.

   The inward coat of a lion’s stomach has stronger folds than a human, but in other things not much different. Arbuthnot.

   6. From the foregoing signification is derived the use of fold in composition. Fold signifies the same quantity added: as, two fold, twice the quantity; twenty fold, twenty times repeated.

   But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit; some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold. Matt.

   At last appear
   Hell bounds, high reaching to the horrid roof,
   And thrice three fold the gates: three folds were brass,
   Three iron, three of adamantine rock. John Milton, Parad. Lost.

   Their martyr’d blood and ashes sow
   O’er all th’ Italian fields, where still doth sway
   The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
   A hundred fold. John Milton.

2. To Foldverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To shut sheep in the fold.

   The star that bids the shepherd fold,
   Now the top of heav’n doth hold. John Milton.

   We see that the folding of sheep helps ground, as well by their warmth as by their compost. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   She in pens his flocks will fold,
   And then produce her dairy store,
   With wine to drive away the cold,
   And unbought dainties of the poor. John Dryden, Horace.

   2. [ faldan , Saxon.] To double; to complicate.

   As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. Heb. i. 12.

   Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. Prov. vi. 10.

   They be folden together as thorns. Nah. i. 10.

   I have seen her rise from her bed, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, read it, seal it, and again return to bed. William Shakespeare.

   Conscious of its own impotence, it folds its arms in despair, and sits cursing in a corner. Jeremy Collier, of Envy.

   Both furl their sails, and strip them for the fight;
   Their folded sheets dismiss the useless air. John Dryden, Ann. Mir.

   3. To inclose; to include; to shut.

   We will descend and fold him in our arms. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.

   Witness my son, now in the shade of death,
   Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath
   Hath in eternal darkness folded up. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   The fires i’ th’ lowest hell fold in the people! William Shakespeare, Coriol.

3. To Foldverb

   To close over another of the same kind; to join with another of the same kind.

   The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 1 Kings vi. 34.

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1. fold

   In a general context, "fold" refers to the action of bending something flexible and relatively flat over on itself so that one part covers another. It can also refer to the line or crease made by this action. In a broader context, it can also refer to including or incorporating a particular thing within a larger group or body. However, the definition can vary depending on the context, such as origami, geology, biology, computer science, etc.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Foldverb

   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

2. Foldverb

   to double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair

3. Foldverb

   to inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace

4. Foldverb

   to cover or wrap up; to conceal

5. Foldverb

   to become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold

6. Fold

   a doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication

7. Fold

   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

8. Fold

   that which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace

9. Foldnoun

   an inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen

10. Foldnoun

    a flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold

11. Foldnoun

    a boundary; a limit

12. Foldverb

    to confine in a fold, as sheep

13. Foldverb

    to confine sheep in a fold

14. Etymology: [OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG. faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. flla, Goth. falan, cf. Gr. di-pla`sios twofold, Skr. pua a fold. Cf. Fauteuil.]

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1. Fold

   A geological fold occurs when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of permanent deformation. Synsedimentary folds are those due to slumping of sedimentary material before it is lithified. Folds in rocks vary in size from microscopic crinkles to mountain-sized folds. They occur singly as isolated folds and in extensive fold trains of different sizes, on a variety of scales. Folds form under varied conditions of stress, hydrostatic pressure, pore pressure, and temperature gradient, as evidenced by their presence in soft sediments, the full spectrum of metamorphic rocks, and even as primary flow structures in some igneous rocks. A set of folds distributed on a regional scale constitutes a fold belt, a common feature of orogenic zones. Folds are commonly formed by shortening of existing layers, but may also be formed as a result of displacement on a non-planar fault, at the tip of a propagating fault, by differential compaction or due to the effects of a high-level igneous intrusion e.g. above a laccolith.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fold

   fōld, n. the doubling of any flexible substance: a part laid over on another: (pl.) complex arrangements, intricacy.—v.t. to lay one part over another: to enclose in a fold or folds, to wrap up: to embrace.—Fold, in composition with numerals=times, as in Ten′fold.—n. Fold′er, the person or thing that folds: a flat knife-like instrument used in folding paper.—adj. Fold′ing, that folds, or that can be folded, as folding-bed, -chair, -joint, -net, -table, &c.—ns. Fold′ing, a fold or plait; Fold′ing-door, a door consisting of two parts hung on opposite jambs, so that their edges come into contact when the door is closed; Fold′ing-machine′, a mechanism that automatically folds printed sheets. [A.S. fealdan, to fold; pa.t. feóld; Ger. falten.]

2. Fold

   fōld, n. an enclosure for protecting domestic animals, esp. sheep: a flock of sheep: (fig.) a church: the Christian Church.—v.t. to confine in a fold.—n. Fold′ing. [A.S. fald, a fold, stall.]

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1. FOLD

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fold in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fold in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Fold in a Sentence

1. D Duane Steward PhD:

   The ultimate lesson to prohibition is two-fold. Watch out for solutions that end up worse than the problems they set out to solve, and remember the Constitution is no place for experiments, noble or otherwise.” – D. Duane Steward, PhD

2. Craig Copeland:

   It's a two-fold story of higher prevalence of debt, and an uptick in those with a very high level of debt, some people are in real trouble.

3. Carissa Christensen:

   It will be one more fact companies fold into their decisions and their negotiations, but it's not going to be the only fact, and it's certainly not going to be the most important fact.

4. Legacy Church:

   Its tragic that what we do for thousands of shut-ins, those in despair, and kids who go without meals gets no state notice, but fixation on one service can net us large fines, the state should fold its losing hand against churches as Colorado has, focus on the truly vulnerable, and recognize what the U.S. Supreme Court has recently said about churches, because we must continue to do what we are called to.

5. Kevin Gunn:

   I think the more that we try to combat racism, it seems like Election Night in 2008 comes back two-fold now, election Night in 2008's kind of like the Hydra.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fold
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fold
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Fold
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Fold