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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A bend or crease.
  • An act of folding.
  • Any correct move in origami.
  • A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  • web design The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually ''the fold''.
  • figuratively Home, family.
  • 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.
  • 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''.
  • (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
  • Christian A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.

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Verb:

  • (Informal) to fall over.
  • intransitive Of a company, to cease to trade.
  • intransitive (''poker'') To withdraw from betting.
  • intransitive to give way on a point or in an argument.
  • transitive to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  • transitive to make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
  • transitive To stir gently, with a folding action.

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