fold
Forms
- present (v1)
- fold
- past (v2)
- folded
- past participle (v3)
- folded
- present participle
- folding
- 3rd person singular
- folds
- Plural
- folds
Definitions
1.To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- The newspaper was folded under his arm.
- Next, fold the paper over, so the right half is on top of the left half.
2.To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- The clothes were folded by the housekeeper.
- If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
3.To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
4.To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- Fold the egg whites into the batter.
1.A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
2.The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
3.An act of folding.
- After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option for this poker hand was probably a fold.
4.That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4131
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-West Germanic *falþan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).
Cognate with Dutch vouwen, German falten.