1. n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
His pants had a nice sharp crease.
His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.
2. n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
3. n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
4. n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
5. v. To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
6. v. (intransitive) To undergo creasing; to form wrinkles.
1. v. To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
2. v. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
3. v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
4. v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
The chair folded under his enormous weight.
5. v. To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
6. v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
7. v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.
8. v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
9. v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
Fold the egg whites into the batter.
10. v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
11. v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
He folded his arms in defiance.
12. v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
13. n. An act of folding.
14. n. A bend or crease.
15. n. Any correct move in origami.
16. n. (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.
17. n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
18. n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
19. n. A group of sheep or goats.
20. n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
21. n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
22. n. (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.
23. n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
24. n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
25. n. (figuratively) Home, family.
26. n. (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.".
27. n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
28. v. To confine animals in a fold.
29. n. (dialectal, poetic, or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
1. n. (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric.
2. n. (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
3. n. A plait.
4. v. To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
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