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FoldFold Fold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Folded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Folding.] [OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG.
faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw.
f[*a]lla, Goth. fal?an, cf. Gr.? twofold, Skr. pu?a a fold.
Cf. Fauteuil.]
1. To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over
another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a
letter.
As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. --Heb. i. 12.
2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as,
he folds his arms in despair.
3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to
infold; to clasp; to embrace.
A face folded in sorrow. --J. Webster.
We will descend and fold him in our arms. --Shak.
4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses. --Shak. Fold
Fold Fold, v. i.
To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another
of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the
door fold. --1 Kings vi. 34.
Fold
Fold Fold, v. t.
To confine in a fold, as sheep.
FoldFold Fold, n. [From Fold, v. In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to
fealdan to fold.]
1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid
over on another part; a plait; a plication.
Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of
linen. --Bacon.
Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous
regions. --J. D. Dana.
2. Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in
composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a
geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of
anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a
quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or
envelops; embrace.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.
--Shak.
Fold net, a kind of net used in catching birds. Fold
Fold Fold, v. i.
To confine sheep in a fold. [R.]
The star that bids the shepherd fold. --Milton.
Meaning of Fold from wikipedia
- Look up
fold, -
fold,
föld, or
folding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Fold,
folding or
foldable may
refer to:
Fold (album), the
debut release by Australian...
- An
epicanthic fold or
epicanthus is a skin
fold of the
upper eyelid that
covers the
inner corner (medial canthus) of the eye. However,
variation occurs...
-
Scottish Fold in 1966.
Depending on registries,
longhaired Scottish Folds are
varyingly known as
Highland Fold,
Scottish Fold Longhair,
Longhair Fold and Coupari...
- a
fold is a
stack of
originally planar surfaces, such as
sedimentary strata, that are bent or
curved ("
folded")
during permanent deformation.
Folds in...
- The
Fold is an
American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois,
United States. The
Fold formed in 2002, and
promptly began work on
their album This Too...
- The
vestibular fold (ventricular
fold,
superior or
false vocal cord) is one of two
thick folds of
mucous membrane, each
enclosing a
narrow band of fibrous...
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Fold change is a
measure describing how much a
quantity changes between an
original and a
subsequent measurement. It is
defined as the
ratio between the...
-
parallel folds are
concertina folds,
letter folds and gate
folds. A
concertina fold, also
known as a zig-zag
fold,
accordion fold or z-
fold, is a continuous...
- The
ileocecal fold (or
ileocaecal fold) is an
anatomical structure of the
human abdomen formed by a
layer of
peritoneum between the
ileum and ce****. The...
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Protein folding is the
physical process by
which a protein,
after synthesis by a
ribosome as a
linear chain of
amino acids,
changes from an
unstable random...
