[
US
/ˈfoʊɫd/
]
[ UK /fˈəʊld/ ]
[ UK /fˈəʊld/ ]
NOUN
- a pen for sheep
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
-
an angular or rounded shape made by folding
a crease in his trousers
a flexure of the colon
a bend of his elbow
a fold in the napkin
a plication on her blouse - a group of sheep or goats
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
-
the act of folding
he gave the napkins a double fold
VERB
-
incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
Fold the egg whites into the batter -
become folded or folded up
The bed folds in a jiffy - confine in a fold, like sheep
-
cease to operate or cause to cease operating
My business closes every night at 8 P.M.
The owners decided to move and to close the factory
close up the shop -
bend or lay so that one part covers the other
fold up the newspaper
turn up your collar
How To Use fold In A Sentence
- Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
- But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
- I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
- Although there are a couple of jarring transitions, the bulk of the movie unfolds with organic clarity.
- First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
- The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
- So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
- Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded.
- The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
- He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
