fold

[ US /ˈfoʊɫd/ ]
[ UK /fˈə‍ʊld/ ]
NOUN
  1. a pen for sheep
  2. a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
  3. a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
  4. 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
  5. a group of sheep or goats
  6. a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
  7. the act of folding
    he gave the napkins a double fold
VERB
  1. incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
    Fold the egg whites into the batter
  2. become folded or folded up
    The bed folds in a jiffy
  3. confine in a fold, like sheep
  4. 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
  5. bend or lay so that one part covers the other
    fold up the newspaper
    turn up your collar
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How To Use fold In A Sentence

  • But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
  • 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
  • Their aim is twofold: to increase productivity and to improve morale by giving employees a feeling of participation in and identification with the company. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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