Definition of Fold

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Definition of Fold

Fold

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.

To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.

A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.

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.

That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.

A boundary; a limit.

To confine in a fold, as sheep.

To confine sheep in a fold.

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Fold Quotations

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.
Cher

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
Charles Hodge

Fold Translations

fold in Danish is fold, folde
fold in Dutch is omvouwen, vouwen, plooien
fold in Finnish is taivuttaa
fold in French is pliez, pli, plient, plions, plissons, plier
fold in German is falten, Falte, zusammenklappen, gefaltete
fold in Latin is sinus
fold in Norwegian is fold, brette, folde
fold in Portuguese is dobra
fold in Spanish is doblar, dobladura, plegar, zangamanga, plegado
fold in Swedish is vika

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