Fold
Fold (fōld) , transitive verb
[Old English folden, falden, Anglo-Saxon fealdan; akin to Old High German faltan, faldan, German falten, Icelandic falda, Danish folde, Swedish fålla, Gothic falþan, compare Greek di-pla`sios twofold, Sanskrit puta a fold. Compare Fauteuil.]
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 , intransitive verb
To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold. — 1 Kings vi. 34
Fold , noun
[From Fold, v. In sense 2 Anglo-Saxon -feald, akin to fealdan to fold.]
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.
Collocations (1)
Fold net , a kind of net used in catching birds.
Fold , noun
[Old English fald, fold, Anglo-Saxon fald, falod.]
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. [Obsolete] — Creech
Collocations (1)
Fold yard , an inclosure for sheep or cattle.
Fold , transitive verb
To confine in a fold, as sheep.
Fold , intransitive verb
To confine sheep in a fold. [Rare]
The star that bids the shepherd fold.