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▸ verb:  (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
▸ verb:  (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To plait or mat (hair) together.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To ensnare, to capture.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
▸ noun:  An act of folding.
▸ noun:  Any correct move in origami.
▸ noun:  That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.
▸ noun:  A bend or crease.
▸ noun:  A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
▸ noun:  A clasp, embrace.
▸ noun:  A coil of a snake’s body.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A wrapping or covering.
▸ noun:  One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
▸ noun:  A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
▸ noun:  (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
▸ noun:  (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
▸ noun:  One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
▸ noun:  A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
▸ noun:  Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
▸ noun:  An enclosure or dwelling generally.
▸ noun:  (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Home, family.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
▸ noun:  (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

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