Fold

Noun

 * 1)  The Earth; earth.

Verb

 * 1)  to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
 * 2)  to make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
 * If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
 * 1)  to fall over.
 * The chair folded under his enormous weight.
 * 1)  to give way on a point or in an argument.
 * 2) To enclose within folded arms
 * 3) *1897,, Chapter 21
 * He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.
 * 1)   To withdraw from betting.
 * With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.
 * 1)  To stir gently, with a folding action.
 * Fold the egg whites into the batter.
 * 1)  Of a company, to cease to trade.
 * The company folded after six quaters of negative growth.

Synonyms

 * (bend (thin material) over): bend, crease
 * (make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending):
 * (fall over): fall over
 * (give way on a point or in an argument): concede, give in, give way, yield
 * (poker: withdraw from betting):
 * (stir gently with a folding action):
 * (cease to trade):

Antonyms

 * unfold

Derived terms

 * foldable
 * foldaway
 * foldboat
 * folder
 * foldover
 * fold-down

Noun

 * 1) An act of folding.
 * 2) A bend or crease.
 * 3) Any correct move in origami.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
 * 6)  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.

Synonyms

 * (act of folding): bending, creasing.
 * (bend or crease): bend, crease.
 * (home, family):
 * (correct move in origami):

Derived terms

 * above the fold
 * below the fold

Noun

 * 1) A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
 * 2)  Home, family.
 * 3)  A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
 * John, X, 16: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
 * 1) (obsolete) A boundary or limit.

Synonyms

 * enclosure
 * pen
 * penfold, pinfold

Adjectives for Fold
enchanting; mazy; misty; snapping; secret drowsy; brazen; caressing; snowy; floating dimpled;  thick;   amorous;   effeminate ample; vaporous; voluminous; wind-flowing; loosened; deep-shadowed; clammy; becoming; sweeping; glistening; filmy; radiant; horizontal; fatal; strangling; gold-fringed; overhanging; graceful; meaningless; pinching; shivering; unapproachable.

Adverbs for Fold
tensely; neatly; unconsciously; ostentatiously; quaintly; placidly; threateningly; wearily; voluminously; tenderly.

Thesaurus
KO, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, arena, armpit, assembly, average, bang, bar, barricade, basin, batten, batten down, be ruined, become insolvent, bend, bisect, bolt, bomb, bosom, bowl, break, brethren, bust, button, button up, call off, cancel, cave, cave in, cavity, choke, choke off, churchgoers, cincture, clap, clasp, class, clip, close, close down, close up, coat, coating, collapse, collop, complete, concave, concavity, confine, congregation, constrict, contain, container, contract, coop, corrugation, court, courtyard, cover, covering, crap out, crash, crater, crease, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crypt, cup, curtilage, cut, deal, deflate, delete, delimited field, depression, dip, disk, dispose of, dog-ear, double, double over, draw a blank, drop a bomb, drop the ball, drop the curtain, embosom, embrace, enclave, enclose, enclosure, end off, enfold, envelop, enwrap, expunge, extinguish, fail, fall in, fan, fasten, feuille, field, film, finalize, finish, flap, flock, flop, flounce, flummox, flute, foil, fold over, fold up, follicle, frill, funnel chest, furrow, gather, get it over, get left, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, give way, go bankrupt, go broke, go into receivership, go to pot, go to ruin, go under, go up, ground, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hug, implode, infold, interfold, kayo, key, kibosh, kill, knock out, lacuna, laity, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lap over, latch, lay an egg, laymen, leaf, list, lock, lock out, lock up, lose out, membrane, middle, minyan, nonclerics, nonordained persons, not hack it, not make it, occlude, overlap, padlock, pale, paling, pane, panel, parish, parishioners, park, patina, peel, pellicle, pen, people, perfect, pit, plait, plank, plat, plate, plating, pleat, plica, plicate, plumb, ply, plywood, pocket, polish off, press, pucker, punch bowl, puncture, put paid to, quad, quadrangle, quill, rasher, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, ruff, ruffle, safety glass, scoop, scrag, scum, seal, seal off, seal up, seculars, secure, sheep, sheet, shell, shoot down, shut, shut down, shut the door, shut up, sink, sinus, skin, slab, slam, slat, slice, snap, society, socket, square, squeeze, squeeze shut, strangle, strike out, table, tablet, take the count, theater, toft, trough, tuck, turn over, twill, veneer, vug, wafer, whiff, wipe out, wrap, wrinkle, yard, zap, zip up, zipper

Etymology 1
From, from folde:, from , from. Cognate with and  fold:.

Etymology 2
folden from fealdan from  from. Akin to vouwen,  falten,  𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽:,  falda: (Danish folde:).

Etymology 3
(Anglo-Saxon) fald, contraction of falod, falæd from Germanic. Akin to Dutch vaalt, Danish fold:, Swedish fålla.

Verb

 * Afrikaans: vou
 * Arabic: طوى
 * Armenian: ծալել
 * Chinese: ,
 * Dutch: vouwen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 折る
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, перегнуть ;  , сложить
 * Serbian: / (saviti/složiti)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మడచు, మడతపెట్టు


 * Afrikaans: vou
 * Dutch: plooien
 * Finnish: taitella, viikata
 * French:
 * German: zusammenlegen, zusammenfalten, falten
 * Icelandic:


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, сложить
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * French: s’effondrer, s’écrouler


 * Afrikaans: vou
 * Dutch: zich gewonnen geven
 * Finnish: antaa periksi


 * French: abandonner, laisser tomber, se replier, concéder
 * Russian:, уступить
 * Swedish: böja sig, vika sig


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: se coucher


 * German:
 * Icelandic:


 * Afrikaans: vou
 * Finnish:


 * German: unterheben


 * Finnish: ,


 * : మడుచు (maDuchu)
 * : dobrar

Noun

 * Afrikaans: vou
 * Finnish: taittelu
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Portuguese: dobradura
 * Russian:


 * Afrikaans: vou
 * Armenian: ծալք,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మడత


 * Finnish:
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 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Czech:


 * : మడత (maData) (1)
 * : dobra

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * French: parc (à moutons), bergerie


 * German:
 * Swedish:


 * German:


 * French: bercail, sein de l’Église


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Etymology 1
from faldr:.

Noun

 * 1) fold
 * 2) crease
 * 3) wrinkle

Noun

 * 1) fold, pen

Noun

 * 1) multiple

Etymology 4
See folde:.

Etymology
From Old Norse fold.

Noun

 * 1)  earth, ground, land

Etymology
From a common Germanic root; probably from the same Proto-Indo-European root as the English words "field" and "fold" (as in "pen for animals", "of the fold").

Noun
fold


 * 1)  earth, land; field
 * Hvé sú jǫrð heitir, / er liggr fyr alda sonum / heimi hverjum í?
 * [...] Jǫrð heitir með mǫnnum, / en með Ásum fold, / kalla vega Vanir. &mdash; verses 9 and 10 of the Alvíssmál
 * How is the earth named, / that which lies before the sons of men, / in each of the worlds?
 * [...] "Earth" it is named among men, / but among the Æsir "Field", / the Vanir call it "Ways".