FOLD
\fˈə͡ʊld], \fˈəʊld], \f_ˈəʊ_l_d]\
Definitions of FOLD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a pen for sheep
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incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
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become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"
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intertwine; "fold one's hands, arms, or legs"
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confine in a fold, like sheep
By Princeton University
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a pen for sheep
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(used in combination) multiplied by a specified number; "`fold' is a combing form in expressions like `a fiftyfold increase'"
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incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
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become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"
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intertwine; "fold one's hands, arms, or legs"
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confine in a fold, like sheep
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
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To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
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To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
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To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
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A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
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That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
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An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
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A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
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A boundary; a limit.
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To confine in a fold, as sheep.
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To confine sheep in a fold.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
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To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
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To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
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To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
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A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
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That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
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An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
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A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
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A boundary; a limit.
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To confine in a fold, as sheep.
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To confine sheep in a fold.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To lay, as one part over another; wrap up; shut up in a pen or fold.
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A part doubled over another; a plait; a pen for sheep; flock of sheep; the church.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The doubling of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another; that which infolds; an inclosure for sheep; a flock of sheep; the Church.
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To lay one part over another; to inclose; to inclose in a fold.
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In composition with numerals times, as in TENFOLD.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To lay or bend over upon itself; lap.
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To embrace; envelop.
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To shut in folds.
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To shut up in a fold, as sheep.
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One part doubled over another; a plait; ply.
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A pen, as for sheep.
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A flock of sheep; a church.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A doubling of any flexible substance; a plait; complication;—times or repetitions—used with numerals in composition to denote multiplication or increase;—that which is folded together, or which infolds; embrace;—a sheep-pen;—a flock of sheep;—hence, the church.
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The ground in which sheep are confined; the place where sheep are housed; the flock of sheep; a limit, a boundary; a double, a complication, one part added to another; from the foregoing signification is derived the use of Fold in composition. Fold signifies the same quantity added, as twenty fold, twenty times repeated.
By Thomas Sheridan