fold
part of speech
verb (fold, folds, folded, folding); noun (a fold, folds)
meaning for a pupil
1) To fold is to bend paper or cloth so one part lies over another. tree →
2) To fold your arms is to cross them over your chest. tree →
3) A fold is a line or crease made by folding. tree →
4) A fold is also a pen for sheep. tree →
5) To fold can mean a business closes. tree →
6) Fold can be added to a number to mean that many times over, as in twofold, which means double. tree →
sense in the lessons
folding paper in half again and again doubles the layers and halves the size; in maths: a fold line can be a line of symmetry; in art: origami is folding paper into shapes; in everyday life: folding clothes, a folding chair; phrases: «fold in half», «fold up», «fold your arms», «-fold» (threefold = 3 times)
examples
- Fold the paper in half. tree →
- She folds 20 shirts. tree →
- After 3 folds there are 8 layers. tree →
- Fold the square into 4 equal parts. tree →
- Fold the paper along the line of symmetry. tree →
- We folded paper cranes in art class. tree →
- He folded his arms and frowned. tree →
- Please fold your clothes and put them away. tree →
- The shepherd brought the sheep back to the fold. tree →
- Planudes has been exposed to a two-fold accusation. tree →
note
Each fold in half doubles the layers: 2, 4, 8 … Trap: it is not adding 2 each time. A fold line that makes two matching halves is a line of symmetry. «Twofold», «threefold» mean 2 times, 3 times as much.
In the corpora
- Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound.
- Stand still like a tree, fold your arms in, look away and wait; then back away slowly.
- In Japan there is a tradition of folding 1,000 paper cranes for a wish.
- Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.
- Sleep takes him «as a swathe of barley is folded into the arms of the reaping machine».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fold» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.