Folds Meaning and Definition
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Word: Folds
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:
unfold
unfurl
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Folds in Other Languages...
Spanish: Doblar
German: Folds
French: Plier
Italian: Piegare
Turkish: Kat