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fold English

Meaning fold meaning

What does fold mean?
Definitions in simple English

fold Verb

— If you fold something thin such as paper, you bend it so it touches itself. A type of art where paper is folded to make different models is called origami. She folded the letter and put it into the envelope to mail it. — In poker, if you fold, you stop betting and withdraw. After three people folded, there were only two people left in the game, betting against each other. — If you fold on ingredient into another, you stir it gently and carefully with a folding action. Fold the egg whites into the batter.

fold Noun

— A fold is a bend or a crease. There was a fold down the middle of the paper. — A fold is a small place with a fence around it where people keep sheep. After the sheep eat grass all day in the fields, they come home to the fold where it's safe for the night.

fold

— verb (= fold up, turn up) bend or lay so that one part covers the other fold up the newspaper turn up your collar — noun (= crease, plication, flexure, bend) 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 — verb incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating Fold the egg whites into the batter — noun (= congregation) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church — noun a folded part (as in skin or muscle) — noun (= folding) the act of folding he gave the napkins a double fold — noun a pen for sheep — noun a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock — verb (= fold up) become folded or folded up The bed folds in a jiffy — verb confine in a fold, like sheep — noun (= flock) a group of sheep or goats — verb (= close up, close) 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

Synonyms fold synonyms

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fold English » English

bend crease pleat wrinkle fold up pen tuck plait double folding hem ply wrap pucker close roll up roll plica crumple flexure curve crimp break shut down close up wrap up turn up stack up sheepfold sheepcote ruffle plication lap flock flex faithful fail enclosure cross corrugation congregation collapse coil close down yard twist thickness sheep pen ruga pen up

Topics fold topics

What do people use fold to talk about?
States Quality Shape Bend

Fold
Physical actions Posture

Move a part of the body
Person Body

Skin
Daily life Cleaning

Wash clothes
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Sheep
States Quality Texture

Furrow
States Quantity Number

Multiples
Person Body

Head
Social behavior Religion Practice religion

Pray
States Quantity Number Cardinal numbers

Two

Conjugation fold conjugation

How do you conjugate fold?

fold · verb

Examples fold examples

How do I use fold in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Fold the napkins and put one by each plate.
Fold the paper in the middle.
Do not fold!
Do not bend or fold!
It took me several hours to fold all the clothes.
If you don't fold your clothes or hang them, they will be wrinkled.
How many times have I told you to fold your clothes?
An epicanthal fold, as is found among many peoples of East Asia, can be surgically removed. The reverse procedure is not possible.
I fold.
As soon as you take off any article of clothing fold it neatly and place it on the chair.
Mary used origami to fold the napkins.
Fold the paper in four.
Fold up the map.
He did nothing but fold his arms.
Teach me how to fold a paper crane. I forgot how to fold it.
Do not fold.
Help me fold these blankets and put them away.
Tom helped Mary fold the laundry.

Movie subtitles

I'm gonna try one more lot, and if I don't dispose of this, I'm gonna fold up.
Its consequences would be two-fold.
If we can nail that bird, the whole works will fold up from the inside.
As soon as he's made a showing, the grand jury will fold up and leave him without any backing.
Catch that horse at the two-mile pole. with his heart bursting and he'll fold up on you.
Michael, you might fold up, and I might fold up. but that horse has the breeding.
I guess that oughta fold ya up.
All right, professor, fold it up.
What, you want me to dig into my pocket every time you fold a wheel or blow a tire?
We always hold all-night meetings before a hanging, brother, just in case the lamb wants to return to the fold.
Take it away, and they fold up.
You fold that right back!
We're due to fold in a couple of days if this keeps up.
But the paper will go under. It will fold.
All you've gotta do is to hang that right on his spinach box and he'll fold.
I'll make it 1 OO. I fold.
Pair of aces. - I guess that oughta fold ya up.
Fold that blanket like I showed you.
And you tear it there. You fold it over here at the side.
Fold over the other side here.
Oh, well. I guess it's all right. If I fold it very neatly, maybe he won ' t notice.
So, we're all going to fold up and die, just because that ersatz superman is gone.
Fold it up, and put it in your pocket.
Fold it like this.
Fold the triangle in half by taking the left corner and folding it to the right.
Take the top flap and open it, creasing it to the left and right side so you can fold the top right corner to the bottom corner.
I'm gonna try one more lot, and if I don't dispose of this, I'm gonna fold up. You get me?
I'll fold.
Kick back with my 50 bucks or I'll fold your joint up like an accordion.
When are you going to fold your wings and be my little daughter-in-law?
I fold.
Now you just give like that, and just let them fold naturally like that.
Then we'll fold them and put them in a hat or a bowl or something.
There's a double fold in the cover. and there's a paper inside.
You fold it over here at the side.

News and current affairs

Nor are there any signs of America's economic hegemony starting to fold under the weight of maintaining its unilateral military dominance.
South Korean's per capita income has grown 23-fold since then, while Pakistan has experienced only a three-fold increase.
The real driving force has been two-fold.
Since 1983, the proportion of funding for mathematical and computational research that comes from the Biological Division of the US National Science Foundation has increased about 50-fold.
During the past three centuries, the human population has increased ten-fold, to more than six billion, and is expected to reach 10 billion in this century.
Moreover, energy use has grown 16-fold during the twentieth century, causing 160 million tons of atmospheric sulfur-dioxide emissions per year - more than twice the total of natural emissions.
New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
Whereas the Ministry of Public Security reported only 8,700 such disturbances in 1993, by 2005 the number had jumped ten-fold, to 87,000.
As for economic collapse, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that global GDP per capita will increase 14-fold over this century and 24-fold in the developing world.
Although the conflict between Iran and its Sunni rivals and the Syrian civil war forced it to loosen ties with Iran and Syria and move into the Sunni fold, in many respects this has been a comfortable shift.
But this triumph marked only a partial return by France to the European fold.
People nowadays know much more about conditions in different countries than they did in the past, and if moving across a border means that their income can be multiplied several-fold, they will try to do it.
As a result, the volume of bank credits financing local investments increased six-fold in 2009 alone.
Regulators have proposed steep hikes: a Bank of England study, for example, suggested a more than three-fold increase.
South Korea's per capita income grew 23-fold over this period, compared to Pakistan's three-fold growth.
As Asia creates the world's largest middle class - projected to grow more than three-fold, from 500 million to 1.75 billion, by 2020 - it will also have to cope with demands for more competent and more accountable governments.
But Rouhani's failure to make a decisive statement on Syria - even after a series of leaked photographs of systematic torture and massacre raised the ire of the international community - has not helped the case for keeping Iran in the fold.
The first is energy conservation through more fuel-efficient vehicles. New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
Since the early 1990's, many poor countries' food bills have soared five- or six-fold, owing not only to population growth, but also to their focus on export-led agriculture.

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