Folded Meaning and Definition


Published: 3 years ago

Updated: 3 years ago

Reading time: 3 minutes

What is the definition Folded? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Related sentences, Derivations, Example sentences, Synonyms, Antonyms, Words ending with Folded, How to pronounce? Words starting with Folded and more...

Folded meaning

Word: Folded

How to pronounce: fəʊld

Verb

Definitions:

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

Example sentences: "Sam folded up the map"

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

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

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

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. A slight hill or hollow in the ground.

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’."

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:

unfolded

unfold

unfurl


Derivations:

fold

folding


Keep in Mind

Images related to Folded

Folded meaning

Folded definition

Folded define


Folded in Other Languages...

Spanish: Doblar

German: Falten

French: Pliée

Italian: Ripiegare

Turkish: Katlanmış


Review

Write a review


Folded Words that start with F