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Fold   /foʊld/   Listen
noun
Fold  n.  
1.
A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication. "Mummies... shrouded in a number of folds of linen." " Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions."
2.
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.
3.
That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace. "Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold."
Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds.


Fold  n.  
1.
An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. "Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold."
2.
A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold. " There shall be one fold and one shepherd." " The very whitest lamb in all my fold."
3.
A boundary; a limit. (Obs.)
Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.


verb
Fold  v. t.  (past & past part. folded; pres. part. folding)  
1.
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. "As a vesture shalt thou fold them up."
2.
To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
3.
To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace. "A face folded in sorrow." "We will descend and fold him in our arms."
4.
To cover or wrap up; to conceal. "Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses."


Fold  v. t.  To confine in a fold, as sheep.


Fold  v. i.  To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.


Fold  v. i.  To confine sheep in a fold. (R.) "The star that bids the shepherd fold."





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"Fold" Quotes from Famous Books



... attracted him in Judith was everything in her which was different from other women, not that which she had in common with them. She was the first intelligent woman he had met. She was intelligent from head to foot. Even her beauty—her gestures, her movements, her features, the fold of her lips, her eyes, her hands, her slender elegance—was the reflection of her intelligence: her body was molded by her intelligence: without her intelligence she would have passed unnoticed: and no doubt she would even have ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... satisfaction except in ruminating on my misery, and in a thousand-fold imaginary multiplication of it. My whole inventive faculty, my poetry and rhetoric, had pitched on this diseased spot, and threatened, precisely by means of this vitality, to involve body and soul into an incurable disorder. ...
— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... object. It has increased the use of the Russian language in official procedure, modified the system of instruction in the schools and universities, and brought, nominally, a few schismatic and heretical sheep into the Eastern Orthodox fold, but it has entirely failed to inspire the subject-populations with Russian feeling and national patriotism; on the contrary, it has aroused in them a bitter hostility to Russian nationality, and to the Central ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... plain omelet and when the eggs are firming, lay over one half of it hot seasoned tops of asparagus, and fold over ...
— Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) - How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs • Anonymous
... of this rare picture there was a fold of ice-burnished granite, traversed by a few bold lines in which rock-ferns and tufts of bryanthus were growing, the gray canon walls on the sides, nobly sculptured and adorned with brown cedars and pines; lofty peaks in the distance, and in the middle ground the snowy fall, the voice and ...
— The Mountains of California • John Muir


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