fold – English noun declension

English noun forms of fold

Noun: fold
Singularfold
Pluralfolds

Sample Sentences

  • give the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard.
  • After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option for this poker hand was probably a fold.
  • […] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man;
  • Who broke our fair companionship,
  • ⁠And spread his mantle dark and cold;
  • And wrapt thee formless in the fold, […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 37:]
  • […] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […] [1631, Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 771, page 194:]
  • […] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […] [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
  • Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack. [2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 43:]
  • For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information. [1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 77:]
  • The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become gentle undulations [1863, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology:]
  • It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it. [2010, Richard Bird, Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168:]
  • Ten folds of sheep, with shepherds presiding over each, encompassed the fountain; and every shaded spot the neighborhood afforded, was already encamped over by Arvah of Gilboa, who had been holding his sheep-shearing in this valley for the last three days. Arvah, who himself presided as chief shepherd of his flocks, was at this time engaged in calling his sheep one by one out of the fold. [1835, N. W. Oliver, Thaddeus Mason Harris, Sephora, C. Harris, page 176:]
  • The obverse side of the coin in essence is "You who do not belong to my fold of sheep cannot believe my good shepherd claim or the other 'I AM' claims I have made." [2013, Willard M. Swartley, John, MennoMedia:]
  • However, of the Jews constituted only the first fold of sheep for whom Jesus came and despite any schism, the Jews are of Jesus' sheep who have been rightly gathered into His fold. There yet is another fold constituting also of the sons of Father Abraham who as sheep must be gathered again together into the one fold. [2012, Aden John, The Last Avatar of Jesus the Christ, AuthorHouse UK:]

Etymology

1. The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-West Germanic *falþan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).
2. Cognate with Dutch vouwen, German falten.
3. The noun is from Middle English folde, falde, itself derived from the verb. See: Old English Nouns 'fealdan', Middle English Nouns 'folde'.

Verbs referencing "fold"

Italian Nouns falda, Spanish Nouns falda, English Nouns faldage, Galician Nouns faldra.