fold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊld/
ipa: [ˈfɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ˈfɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: fōld
ipa: /foʊld/
ipa: /fəʉld/
ipa: [fəʉɫd]
ipa: /faʉld/
ipa: [faʉɫd]
homophone: foaled
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: folds
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”).
The noun is from Middle English folde, falde, itself derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: give the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard.
text: After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option was probably a fold.
synonyms: bending
creasing
glosses: An act of folding.
synonyms: bending
creasing
glosses: An act of folding.
Any correct move in origami.
examples: text: […] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man;
Who broke our fair companionship,
⁠And spread his mantle dark and cold;
And wrapt thee formless in the fold, […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
A bend or crease.
synonyms: bend
crease
examples: text: […] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […]
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 771, page 194:
glosses: That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
synonyms: ply
examples: text: […] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […]
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
A clasp, embrace.
glosses: That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
A coil of a snake’s body.
glosses: That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
A wrapping or covering.
glosses: That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
glosses: A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
examples: text: The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become gentle undulations
ref: 1863, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.
ref: 2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 43:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: 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.
examples: text: For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.
ref: 1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 77:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
examples: text: It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it.
ref: 2010, Richard Bird, Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
qualifier: functional programming
glosses: Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
glosses: One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
Derived terms: above the fold
accordion fold
banana fold
below the fold
billfold
Bradley Fold
centrefold
centerfold
check-fold
downfold
efold
epicanthal fold
epicanthic fold
fanfold
fentanyl fold
fenty fold
fin fold
fold and thrust belt
foldback
fold boat
foldchange
fold equity
foldless
fold mountain
fold sphere
foldy
gatefold
headfold
hyperfold
interfold
linenfold
metafold
microfold
mountain fold
nailfold
nanofold
polyfold
prefold
skinfold
superfold
urethral fold
urogenital fold
valley fold
vocal fold