FOLD

Fold

A geological fold occurs when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of permanent deformation. Synsedimentary folds are those due to slumping of sedimentary material before it is lithified. Folds in rocks vary in size from microscopic crinkles to mountain-sized folds. They occur singly as isolated folds and in extensive fold trains of different sizes, on a variety of scales.

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fold

Noun

  1. An act of folding.
  2. A bend or crease.
  3. Any correct move in origami.
  4. 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.
  5. The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
  6. 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.
  7. In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  8. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  2. Home, family.
  3. 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."
  4. A boundary or limit.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. The Earth; earth; land, country.

Verb

  1. To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  2. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
    If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
  3. To become folded; to form folds.
    Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
  4. To fall over; to be crushed.
    The chair folded under his enormous weight.
  5. To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  6. To give way on a point or in an argument.
  7. To withdraw from betting.
    With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.
  8. To stir gently, with a folding action.
    Fold the egg whites into the batter.
  9. Of a company, to cease to trade.
    The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
  10. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
    He folded his arms in defiance.
  11. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To confine sheep in a fold.
    The star that bids the shepherd fold — Milton.


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