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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /fəʊld/, SAMPA: /f@Uld/
- (US) enPR: fōld, IPA: /foʊld/, SAMPA: /foUld/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊld
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuldōn (“ground, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“field, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”).
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fold (uncountable)
[edit] Etymology 2
Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþanan (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *palo-, *plō- (“to fold”). Akin to Dutch vouwen, German falten, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽 (falþan), Old Norse falda (Danish folde).
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fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past folded or feld (obsolete), past participle folded or rarely folden)
- (transitive) to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) to make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
- (intransitive) (informal) to fall over.
- The chair folded under his enormous weight.
- (intransitive) to give way on a point or in an argument.
- To enclose within folded arms
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- (intransitive) (poker) To withdraw from betting.
- With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.
- (transitive) To stir gently, with a folding action.
- Fold the egg whites into the batter.
- (intransitive) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- The company folded after six quaters of negative growth.
[edit] Synonyms
- (bend (thin material) over): bend, crease
- (make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending):
- (fall over): fall over
- (give way on a point or in an argument): concede, give in, give way, yield
- (poker: withdraw from betting):
- (stir gently with a folding action):
- (cease to trade):
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[edit] Noun
fold (plural folds)
- An act of folding.
- A bend or crease.
- Any correct move in origami.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- (geology) 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.
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- (act of folding): bending, creasing.
- (bend or crease): bend, crease.
- (home, family):
- (correct move in origami):
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[edit] Etymology 3
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) fald, contraction of falod, falæd from Germanic. Akin to Dutch vaalt, Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla.
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fold (plural folds)
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- John, X, 16: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
- (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
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fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past and past participle folded)
- To confine sheep in a fold.
- The star that bids the shepherd fold — Milton.
[edit] Danish
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- IPA: /fɔl/, [fʌlˀ]
[edit] Etymology 1
from Old Norse faldr (“seam”).
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fold c. (singular definite folden, plural indefinite folder)
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[edit] Etymology 2
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fold c. (singular definite folden, plural indefinite folde)
- fold, pen
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fold n.
[edit] Etymology 4
See folde (“to fold”).
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fold
- imperative of folde
[edit] See also
Fold on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
[edit] Icelandic
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse fold.
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fold f. (genitive singular foldar, plural foldir)
[edit] Old Norse
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From a common Germanic root; probably from the same Proto-Indo-European root as the English words "field" and "fold" (as in "pen for animals", "of the fold").
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fold f.
- (poetic) earth, land; field
- Hvé sú jǫrð heitir, / er liggr fyr alda sonum / heimi hverjum í?
- [...] Jǫrð heitir með mǫnnum, / en með Ásum fold, / kalla vega Vanir. — verses 9 and 10 of the Alvíssmál
- How is the earth named, / that which lies before the sons of men, / in each of the worlds?
- [...] "Earth" it is named among men, / but among the Æsir "Field", / the Vanir call it "Ways".
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