Fold Meaning and Definition

Word: Fold

How to pronounce: fəʊld

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Bend (something flexible and relatively flat) over on itself so that one part of it covers another.

Example sentences: "She folded all her clothes and packed all her bags"

2. Cover or wrap something in (a soft or flexible material)

Example sentences: "A plastic bag was folded around the book"

3. (of an enterprise or organization) cease operating as a result of financial problems or a lack of support.

Noun

Definitions:

1. A form or shape produced by the gentle draping of a loose, full garment or piece of cloth.

Example sentences: "The fabric fell in soft folds"

2. An undulation or gentle curve of the ground; a slight hill or hollow.

Example sentences: "The house lay in a fold of the hills"

3. A line or crease produced in paper or cloth as the result of folding it.

Example sentences: "Folding clothes gives a sharp crease along the fold line."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A pen or enclosure in a field where livestock, especially sheep, can be kept.

Example sentences: "Whaw comes from the Norse meaning ‘the enclosure near the fold where sheep are milked’."

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Shut (livestock) in a fold.

Synonyms:

crease

crimp

flexure

plication

double

seam

lock seam

pleat

plica

lay

put down

fold down

flap

foldable

bend

congregation

flock

pack

faithful

curl up

tuck

collapsible

sheepfold

sheepcote

sheep pen

collapse

close down

close

fail

Antonyms:

unfold

unfurl

Derivations:

folding

folded

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Fold in Other Languages...

Spanish: Doblar

German: Falten

French: Plier

Italian: Piegare

Turkish: Kat