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Fold

noun

1.

An angular or rounded shape made by folding. Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, plication. "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"

2.

A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. Synonyms: congregation, faithful.

3.

A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock. Synonym: folding.

4.

A group of sheep or goats. Synonym: flock.

5.

A folded part (as in skin or muscle). Synonym: plica.

6.

A pen for sheep. Synonyms: sheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold.

7.

The act of folding. Synonym: folding.

verb

(past & past part. folded; pres. part. folding)

1.

Bend or lay so that one part covers the other. Synonyms: fold up, turn up. "Turn up your collar" Antonym: unfold.

2.

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

3.

Cease to operate or cause to cease operating. Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down. "My business closes every night at 8 P.M." , "Close up the shop" Antonym: open.

4.

Confine in a fold, like sheep. Synonym: pen up.

5.

Become folded or folded up. Synonym: fold up.

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"Fold" Quotes from Famous Books

... very soon found what was wrong with father. 'Eh, poor soul!' said he to me, 'he's the hundredth sheep that's got lost out on the moor, and he reckons the Shepherd'll bide warm in the fold with the ninety and nine, and never give a thought to him, poor, starved, straying thing! Dear, dear!—and as if I'd do such a thing, sinner that I am!—as if I could eat a crust in peace till I'd been after my sheep, poor wretch!—and to think the good Lord'd do it!—and ...

— The Maidens' Lodge - None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) • Emily Sarah Holt

... superintendents of orphan asylums to bring with them personal maids and Chinese chows. The night watchman and housekeeper, who had waited up to receive me, were thrown into an awful flutter. They had never seen the like of Sing, and thought that I was introducing a wolf into the fold. I reassured them as to his dogginess, and the watchman, after studying his black tongue, ventured a witticism. He wanted to know if I fed him ...

— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster

... don't like to handle copy that isn't typed. It's too hard on the eyes and takes us too long. However, we must make the best of it, I suppose. Only be sure to write plainly and on but one side of the paper; and do not fold or roll your sheets. That is one thing no publisher will stand for—rolled manuscript. ...

— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett

... snarl of gloating he rolled the ruby in a fold of his turban, locked the box, and ...

— Caste • W. A. Fraser

... the cotton-gin, cotton became the principal article of export from the United States; cotton plantations rapidly increased in size and number, and their owners multiplied their slaves and grew rich. Cotton production increased from 1793 to 1860 one thousand fold. ...

— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer

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