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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fold
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a folding chair (=one which you can fold so it is flat)
▪ People were sitting on blankets or folding chairs, listening to the outdoor concert.
fold its wings
▪ Gannets fold their wings and plummet like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey.
fold the laundry (=fold clothes after they have been washed and dried)
▪ He was folding the laundry and watching TV.
fold your hands (=put your hands together and rest them on something)
▪ Lily folded both hands on her stomach.
fold/cross your arms (=bend both arms in front of your body)
▪ He folded his arms across his chest and waited.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ Carefully fold in the remaining sugar and cocoa.
▪ Without a word he sprung to his feet and handed Mitchell a note, folded carefully into quarters.
▪ On the side of the bed away from the window was Lily's new silk nightdress, folded carefully by the chambermaid.
▪ We put all the suitcases on the bed and fill them methodically with stack after stack of carefully folded clothing.
▪ Pulling a little face, she carefully folded the tea-towel she'd been using and laid it on the work surface.
▪ Anyway, in order to close the suitcase, we end up mashing down all our carefully folded stacks of clothes.
▪ He went into the sacristy, removed his alb and carefully folded his violet stole.
▪ Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair.
neatly
▪ It was a single sheet that had been folded neatly into four.
▪ Quilts were neatly folded inside a closet.
▪ The maroon dress was neatly folded, and the coral necklace carefully pinned to the bodice with a large safety pin.
▪ Their umbrellas are neatly folded shut and placed in the stand at the entrance, the handles all facing the same direction.
▪ Two nice new fivers every time, folded neatly, given like a present.
▪ I removed my shirt and neatly folded it beside me.
▪ The sheets and blankets were neatly folded on the mattress, the drawers were open, and the cupboard door hung ajar.
▪ Painted-over windows, freshly laundered towels neatly folded, and a paper mat outside the tiny shower highlight the bathroom.
■ NOUN
arm
▪ An armed guard stood there in the doorway, head bowed, a clean silk pau folded over one arm.
▪ The woman folded her arms and became silent in a way that swept Lois with feelings of admiration.
▪ Mr Bumble put down his hat, unbuttoned his coat, folded his arms, and sat back in his chair.
▪ He saw four of them, standing with folded arms, looking up at the ship.
▪ But the moment passed and the Robemaker had folded his arms, the deep sleeves hanging down.
▪ He got the feeling that she folded her arms not to hide herself but as a natural aid to thinking.
▪ Ruthie folded her arms, as if to emphasize her lack of responsibility for the shop she was minding.
▪ Tom folded his arms, put a pleasant expression on his face, and did not try to talk any more.
clothes
▪ The attendants folded the clothes and exchanged them for a token, before placing them upon tiers of racks.
▪ She finds a paper shopping bag and folds some clothes into it.
▪ She did not insist on folding all her clothes, but used the closet too.
▪ Anyway, in order to close the suitcase, we end up mashing down all our carefully folded stacks of clothes.
▪ And the folded stacks of clothes need to wait to be put away.
▪ She folded her clothes carefully and put them on the chair by the television.
▪ We undress in a small anteroom and fold our clothes neatly into baskets on the shelves.
hand
▪ She had been found lying on her back, hands folded, naked.
▪ At their services they sat quietly, eyes lowered and hands folded, waiting for the Spirit to prompt some one to speak.
▪ Nadine was standing by the kitchen table, her hands folded in front of her.
▪ He was dressed in radiant white vestments and his hands were folded on his chest.
▪ His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap.
▪ I kept my hands folded on my desk.
▪ Both his hands were folded on the handle of the stick.
▪ Her wispy gray hair was loose, hanging down her back like cobwebs, and her hands were folded in her lap.
leg
▪ My legs folded, both knees hit the ground, and I scrambled, in a rage, back on to the wheelbarrow.
▪ His legs were broken and folded, permanently, into his groin.
▪ I climbed out and my legs began folding under me.
▪ The legs fold out independently, of course.
▪ He stood gazing off into vistas, legs apart, arms folded across his chest and thought deep thoughts.
▪ On bed seventeen there was a man lying on his back with his legs folded up at his knees.
letter
▪ Tom folded the letter and stuck it into his jacket pocket.
▪ Converse folded the letter and looked at his watch.
▪ I folded up the letter and put it in my photograph album.
▪ I addressed the three envelopes, folded the letters, and slipped the sheets inside.
▪ Her hands trembled, and it was some while before she got the folded letter out of the envelope.
napkin
▪ A busboy kills time by folding napkins.
▪ He slips a folded napkin into the bag.
▪ She folded her napkin, put it carefully through the ring and then left it by her place.
▪ He wore a folded napkin on his head like a baby bonnet.
▪ He folded the napkin on his lap.
newspaper
▪ The housekeeper folded the newspaper and continued to clean brasses.
▪ She folded the newspaper roughly, thrust it into her bag and walked zombie-like into the Metro.
paper
▪ Take away a sheet of paper or fold one in half each time to make the game more difficult.
▪ Union officials said they had no idea how many jobs could be lost if one of the papers folded.
▪ Photocopied on to cream A4 laid paper, folded once in both directions.
▪ The rooms themselves were like those dusty red paper Christmas bells, folds within folds.
▪ Photocopied on to a heavy red A4 sheet of paper and folded in both directions.
▪ She finds a paper shopping bag and folds some clothes into it.
▪ He closed it a few months after Maxwell's paper folded - with a circulation of only about 100,000.
▪ Mr Grange has taken down the drooping snowflakes and is cutting bunnies out of freezer paper folded accordion style.
sheet
▪ I loved helping her fold sheets.
▪ Captain Shaker folded the roster sheet and put it under his arm and awaited inspection.
▪ I helped him fold his sheets.
▪ There, I thought, hastily folding the sheet of paper and placing it in the envelope.
▪ She folded her jumpers around sheets of tissue paper after ironing so that they wouldn't crease on the shelf.
▪ She folded one sheet into a square, then another.
▪ Having done so he folded the sheet of paper again, replaced it in his pocket and made to leave.
▪ They helped her straighten the covers in the morning, and folded back the white sheet with celestial zest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fold up your clothes, don't just throw them on the floor!
▪ Before getting into bed, I usually fold my clothes and put them on the chair.
▪ Doug folded the check and put it in his wallet.
▪ He folded his newspaper and handed it to me.
▪ Most of the companies dependent on the steel works folded within weeks.
▪ One of the most important newspapers in the region has folded.
▪ The blankets were folded at the bottom of the bed.
▪ The chairs fold flat for easy storage.
▪ The napkins were folded into neat triangles.
▪ Tom folded the letter in half and stuck it in his pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He folded it into its white envelope.
▪ His thin companion folded his limbs like an insect as he sat down.
▪ The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures, less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding.
▪ The young man left the stage and the curtains folded together.
▪ Then fold the dough over the filling, pinching the two sides together until you have a half-moon dumpling.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
leave
▪ Bunched cloths also tend to leave loose folds trailing which cause smearing.
▪ Why leave the family fold, when employee stock purchases plus earnings are enough to keep the company growing?
return
▪ When the offending Arminian left he returned to the fold.
▪ She will return to the fold which has enveloped her with love and support during her difficult marriage.
▪ Next year, H.R. and Earl once again returned to the fold and restored the original line-up.
▪ Day returned to the fold the following day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Camels have an extra fold of skin on their eyelids to keep out the sand.
▪ Cut the paper along the fold.
▪ He hid the knife in the folds of his robe.
▪ She lay there in the narrow bed, her chin resting on the fold of the sheet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A little fold of the veil can be drawn aside to disclose his mood at that time.
▪ An arm-chair had been pushed to the side; it had pulled a fold in the carpet.
▪ But if past success is any guide, another Nasdaq company will join the fold before long.
▪ In addition to the ordinary vocal cords, the cat possesses a second pair of structures called vestibular folds, or false vocal cords.
▪ Nuadu thought that a glitter of amusement showed from within the folds of the hood.
▪ She opened the note in her hand, sighing with great impatience at its folds.
▪ She with his quick sketch of her as Madonna ascending in folds upon modest folds of garments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fold

Fold \Fold\, n. [OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.]

  1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

    Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.
    --Milton.

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

    There shall be one fold and one shepherd.
    --John x. 16.

    The very whitest lamb in all my fold.
    --Tennyson.

  3. A boundary; a limit. [Obs.]
    --Creech.

    Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.

Fold

Fold \Fold\, v. i. 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.

Fold

Fold \Fold\, n. [From Fold, v. In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to fealdan to fold.]

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

    Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen.
    --Bacon.

    Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
    --J. D. Dana.

  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.

  3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.

    Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.
    --Shak.

    Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.

Fold

Fold \Fold\ (f[=o]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Folded; p. pr. & vb. n. Folding.] [OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG. faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. f[*a]lla, Goth. fal[thorn]an, cf. Gr. di-pla`sios twofold, Skr. pu[.t]a a fold. Cf. Fauteuil.]

  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.

    As a vesture shalt thou fold them up.
    --Heb. i. 1

  2. 2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

  3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.

    A face folded in sorrow.
    --J. Webster.

    We will descend and fold him in our arms.
    --Shak.

  4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

    Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
    --Shak.

Fold

Fold \Fold\, v. t. To confine in a fold, as sheep.

Fold

Fold \Fold\, v. i. To confine sheep in a fold. [R.]

The star that bids the shepherd fold.
--Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fold

"pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals," Old English falæd, falud "stall, stable, cattle-pen," a general Germanic word (cognates: East Frisian folt "enclosure, dunghill," Dutch vaalt "dunghill," Danish fold "pen for sheep"), of uncertain origin. Figurative use by mid-14c.

fold

"a bend or ply in anything," mid-13c., from fold (v.). Compare similarly formed Middle Dutch voude, Dutch vouw, Old High German falt, German Falte, Old Norse faldr.

fold

Old English faldan (Mercian), fealdan (West Saxon), transitive, "to bend (cloth) back over itself, wrap up, furl," class VII strong verb (past tense feold, past participle fealden), from Proto-Germanic *falthan, *faldan (cognates: Middle Dutch vouden, Dutch vouwen, Old Norse falda, Middle Low German volden, Old High German faldan, German falten, Gothic falþan).\n

\nThe Germanic words are from PIE *pel-to- (cognates: Sanskrit putah "fold, pocket," Albanian pale "fold," Middle Irish alt "a joint," Lithuanian pleta "I plait"), from root *pel- (3) "to fold" (also source of Greek ploos "fold," Latin -plus).\n

\nOf the arms, from late Old English. Intransitive sense "become doubled upon itself" is from c.1300 (of the body); earlier "give way, fail" (mid-13c.). Sense of "to yield to pressure" is from late 14c. The weak conjugation developed from 15c. Related: Folded; folding.

Wiktionary
fold

Etymology 1 n. 1 An act of folding. 2 A bend or crease. 3 Any correct move in origami. 4 A group of sheep or goats. 5 A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. 6 (context newspapers English) 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''. 7 (context by extension web design English) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually ''the fold''. 8 (context geology English) 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. 9 (context computing programming English) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value. 10 That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace. 11 (rfdef: English) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. 2 (context transitive English) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. 3 (context intransitive English) To become folded; to form folds. 4 (context intransitive informal English) To fall over; to be crushed. 5 (context transitive English) To enclose within folded arms (''see also'' enfold). 6 (context intransitive English) To give way on a point or in an argument. 7 (context intransitive poker English) To withdraw from betting. 8 (context transitive cooking English) To stir gently, with a folding action. 9 (context intransitive business English) Of a company, to cease to trade. 10 To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands. 11 To cover or wrap up; to conceal. Etymology 2

n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. vb. To confine sheep in a fold. Etymology 3

n. (context dialectal poetic or obsolete English) The Earth; earth; land, country.

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WordNet
fold

  1. n. 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" [syn: crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend]

  2. a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church [syn: congregation, faithful]

  3. a folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle) [syn: plica]

  4. a pen for sheep [syn: sheepfold, sheep pen, sheepcote]

  5. the act of folding; "he gave the napkins a double fold" [syn: folding]

fold

  1. v. bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" [syn: fold up, turn up] [ant: unfold]

  2. intertwine; "fold one's hands, arms, or legs"

  3. incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter"

  4. 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." [syn: close, shut down, close down] [ant: open]

  5. confine in a fold, like sheep [syn: pen up]

  6. become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy" [syn: fold up]

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Wikipedia
Fold (album)

Fold was the debut release by Australian rock band Epicure. It was issued on 7 August 2000.

Fold (Unix)

Fold is a Unix command used for making a file with long lines more readable on a limited width terminal. Most Unix terminals have a default screen width of 80, and therefore reading files with long lines could get annoying. The fold command puts a line feed every X characters if it does not reach a new line before that point. If the -w argument is set, the fold command allows the user to set the maximum length of a line.

Fold (geology)

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 (fault bend fold), at the tip of a propagating fault (fault propagation fold), by differential compaction or due to the effects of a high-level igneous intrusion e.g. above a laccolith.

Fold (higher-order function)

In functional programming, fold (also termed reduce, accumulate, aggregate, compress, or inject) refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a return value. Typically, a fold is presented with a combining function, a top node of a data structure, and possibly some default values to be used under certain conditions. The fold then proceeds to combine elements of the data structure's hierarchy, using the function in a systematic way.

Folds are in a sense dual to unfolds, which take a seed value and apply a function corecursively to decide how to progressively construct a corecursive data structure, whereas a fold recursively breaks that structure down, replacing it with the results of applying a combining function at each node on its terminal values and the recursive results ( catamorphism, versus anamorphism of unfolds).

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Usage examples of "fold".

Coarse dorneck linen abraded her own fingers as she twisted them into the folds of her apron.

THE SHADOW folded the actinium powder in a small piece of paper that he found in the wastebasket.

Through the gnarled limbs Aganippe saw two great rounded folds of earth, with a dark cleft between them, topped by a tuft of trees and brush.

The Senite stepped onto the veranda, its hands folded politely in its long white sleeves and a look of care upon its ageless face.

Their eyes, so uncannily inhuman in a face so like to human form, examined Adica, Alain, and the Akka woman before they sank down to the ground, legs folded under them.

As he explained in Collected Words, there were a number of technical problems to be allowed for in the poster: Because the sheet was folded three times to bring it to the square shape for insertion into the album, the composition was interestingly complicated by the need to consider it as a series of subsidiary compositions.

When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.

He was standing under the new alestake, arms folded, glowering at his men.

Grandmother had swathed Alise snugly in a blanket, folding it around her and tucking in the ends as a mother swaddles a newborn babe.

A giant sheet of folded polysaccharide, a complex mesh of interlinked pentose and hexose sugars hung with alkyl and amide side chains.

I folded my arms and looked out at the alpenglow illuminating the cloudtops many kilometers below and the brilliant evening light on the northern peak.

Vpon the other Anaglyph, I did behold a merrie and pleasant maiesticall personage, like a yoong fat boye, crowned with two folding serpents, one white, and the other blacke, tied into a knot.

I switched on the torch and found Angekok there before me, his arms folded across his chest.

They left the dark upper corners of the human quarters where, mourning the loss of Billy Anker and his girl, they had clung in loose temporary skeins like cobwebs in the folds of an old curtain.

So Brett took Finn where he wanted to go, introduced him to the often appalling people Finn said he needed to meet, and did a lot of sitting miserably in corners, with his arms folded tightly over his aching stomach.