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fold | bundle |

As a proper noun fold

is earth.

As a verb bundle is

.

fold

English

(wikipedia fold)

Etymology 1

(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) falda (Danish folde).

Verb

  • To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  • To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
    • If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
  • To become folded; to form folds.
    • Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
  • (informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
    • The chair folded under his enormous weight.
  • To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Chapter 21
    • 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.
  • To give way on a point or in an argument.
  • (poker) To withdraw from betting.
    • With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded .
  • (cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
    • Fold the egg whites into the batter.
  • (business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
    • The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
  • To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
    • He folded his arms in defiance.
  • To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
    Synonyms
    * bend, crease * (fall over) fall over * (give way on a point or in an argument) concede, give in, give way, yield
    Antonyms
    * unfold
    Derived terms
    * foldable * foldaway * foldboat * folder * folding money * foldover * fold-down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of folding.
  • A bend or crease.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • mummies shrouded in a number of folds of linen
  • * J. D. Dana
    • Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
  • Any correct move in origami.
  • A group of sheep or goats.
  • A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
  • (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 .
  • (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold .
  • (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.
  • (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  • That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold .
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    * (act of folding) bending, creasing. * (bend or crease) bend, crease. * * (correct move in origami)
    Derived terms
    * above the fold * below the fold

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fold, fald, from (etyl) fald, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  • * Milton
    • Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“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. …”}}
  • (figuratively) Home, family.
  • (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
    • John , X, 16 : "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
  • (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
    • (Creech)
    Synonyms
    * enclosure * pen * penfold, pinfold

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confine sheep in a fold.
    • The star that bids the shepherd fold — Milton.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
    • English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    bundle

    English

    (wikipedia bundle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
    • a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
  • * Goldsmith
    • The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
  • A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
  • (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
  • (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
    • The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
  • (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
  • A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).

    • Derived terms

    * bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nerves

    Descendants

    *

    Coordinate terms

    * (quantity of paper) bale, quire, ream

    See also

    *

    Verb

  • To tie or wrap together.
  • To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  • * T. Hook
    • They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
  • To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
  • To dress someone warmly.
  • To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
  • (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
  • To hurry.
  • (slang) To dogpile
  • To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.}}
  • * 1851 ,
    • Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
  • * 1859 , Terence, Comedies of Terence
    • Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
  • (dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    Derived terms

    * bundle off * bundler * unbundle