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fold c (singular definite folden, plural indefinite folder)

folden (definite singular)
folder (indefinite plural)
fold (indefinite nominative singular)
folden (definite nominative singular)
folder (indefinite nominative plural)
folderne (definite nominative plural)
folds (genitive indefinite singular)
foldens (definite genitive singular)
folders (genitive indefinite plural)
foldernes (definite genitive plural)


fold

fold c (singular definite folden, plural indefinite folde)

folden (definite singular)
folde (indefinite plural)
fold (indefinite nominative singular)
folden (definite nominative singular)
folde (indefinite nominative plural)
foldene (definite nominative plural)
folds (genitive indefinite singular)
foldens (definite genitive singular)
foldes (genitive indefinite plural)
foldenes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Danish fald, from Middle Low German valde, from Old Saxon *faled, from Proto-Germanic *faludaz.


fold

(transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.

(transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

(transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.

Fold the egg whites into the batter.

8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe
if you want to make life really easy for yourself, may I point you in the direction of Sunflour’s recipe, which folds four eggs and 150g ground almonds into 500g chocolate spread.

(transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.

Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.

(intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.

The chair folded under his enormous weight.

buckle#English:_collapse or crumple physically

(intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.

buckle#English:_give way, give up, surrender

(intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.

With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.

(intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.

(intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.

(intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.

The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.

(intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.

He folded his arms in defiance.

(transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.

(transitive, obsolete) To plait or mat (hair) together.

(transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.

He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

(transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).

I will not poyſon thee with my attaint, / Nor fold my fault in cleanly coin’d excuſes, / My ſable ground of ſinne I will not paint, / To hide the truth of this falſe nights abuſes.

1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

(transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.

(transitive, obsolete) To ensnare, to capture.

(transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.

en-verb

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past folded, past participle folded or (obsolete) folden)

folds (present singular third-person)
folding (participle present)
folded (past)
folded (participle past)
folden (obsolete participle past)

⇒ Czech: foldovat

vou

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.


fold

give the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard.

After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option was probably a fold.

An act of folding.
Any correct move in origami.

[…] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man;
Who broke our fair companionship,
And spread his mantle dark and cold;
And wrapt thee formless in the fold, […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXII, page 37:

That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

[…] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […]

1631, Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 771, page 194:

A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.

[…] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […]

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

One of the doorleaves of a folding door.

A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.

The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become gentle undulations

1863, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology:

(geology) 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.

Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.

2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 43:

(newspapers) 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.

For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.

1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 77:

(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it.

2010, Richard Bird, Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

functional programming
functional programming

higher-order function
higher-order function

(functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

(programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.

One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.

vrása

(geology) bending of originally flat planar surfaces


fold

Leaps o're the fence with ease into the fold.

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”

1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.

(collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.

And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold, and one shepheard.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 10:16:

(Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.

Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold, Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute.

2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:

Most recently, in his ambitious 2015 book, Leaving the Jewish Fold, Endelman significantly enlarges his purview in both time and space to broadly survey the phenomenon of Jewish conversion from early medieval to postmodern times […]

2021, Angela Kuttner Botelho, German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 37:

In a first phase of foreign policy, after 1945, my country sought to regain former enemies’ trust. We are forever grateful that they extended their hand to us, readmitting us into the global fold.

2023 July 6, Annalena Baerbock, “Russia’s war on Ukraine has forced us in Germany to think differently about our role in the world”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.

The noun is from Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”). Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, vālt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”).
The verb is from Late Middle English fooldyn, itself derived from the noun.


fold

The star that bids the shepherd fold,
Now the top of heaven doth hold.

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

On the same day [Midsummer Eve] people in the Isle of Man were wont to light fires to the windward of every field, so that the smoke might pass over the corn; and they folded their cattle and carried blazing furze or gorse round them several times.

1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 289:

(transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.

(transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.

(transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.

en-verb

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past and past participle folded)

folds (present singular third-person)
folding (participle present)
folded (participle past)
folded (past)


fold

(dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

From Middle English folde, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuldǭ, *fuldō (“earth, ground; field; the world”). Cognate with Old Norse fold (“earth, land, field”), Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”).


fold

is-noun

fold f (genitive singular foldar, nominative plural foldir)

foldar (genitive singular)
foldir (nominative plural)
fold (indefinite nominative singular)
foldin (definite nominative singular)
foldir (indefinite nominative plural)
foldirnar (definite nominative plural)
fold (accusative indefinite singular)
foldina (accusative definite singular)
foldir (accusative indefinite plural)
foldirnar (accusative definite plural)
fold (dative indefinite singular)
foldinni (dative definite singular)
foldum (dative indefinite plural)
foldunum (dative definite plural)
foldar (genitive indefinite singular)
foldarinnar (definite genitive singular)
folda (genitive indefinite plural)
foldanna (definite genitive plural)


fold

A pen, enclosure, or shelter for domesticated animals.

English: fold

Scots: fald, fauld

Yola: vold

→ Welsh: ffald

From Old English fald, falæd, falod, from Proto-West Germanic *falud, from Proto-Germanic *faludaz.


fold

Hitt vas fyrr, / at fold ruðu
sverðberendr / sínum dróttni.[…]

9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5

[…] It happened before, / that the sword-bearers
reddened the ground / with [the blood of] their lord. […]

[…]Hvé sú jǫrð heitir, / er liggr fyr alda sonum
heimi hverjum í?
10. Jǫrð heitir með mǫnnum,
en með Ásum fold, / kalla vega Vanir.
[…] How is the earth named, / which lies before the sons of men,
in each of the worlds?
10. "Earth" it is named among men,

900-1100, The Alvíssmál, verses 9 and 10

but among the Æsir "Field", / the Vanir call it "Ways".

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fold

fold (indefinite nominative singular)
foldin (definite nominative singular)
foldar (indefinite nominative plural)
foldir (indefinite nominative plural)
foldarnar (definite nominative plural)
foldirnar (definite nominative plural)
fold (accusative indefinite singular)
foldina (accusative definite singular)
foldar (accusative indefinite plural)
foldir (accusative indefinite plural)
foldarnar (accusative definite plural)
foldirnar (accusative definite plural)
fold (dative indefinite singular)
foldu (dative indefinite singular)
foldinni (dative definite singular)
foldum (dative indefinite plural)
foldunum (dative definite plural)
foldar (genitive indefinite singular)
foldarinnar (definite genitive singular)
folda (genitive indefinite plural)
foldanna (definite genitive plural)

Icelandic: fold

⇒ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: Vestfold, Østfold

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Norwegian Nynorsk: Vestfold, Austfold, Østfold

From Proto-Germanic *fuldō (“earth, ground; field; the world”).