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As a proper noun fold

is earth.

As a noun aspect is

the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

fold

English

(wikipedia fold)

Etymology 1

(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) falda (Danish folde).

Verb

  • To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
  • To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
    • If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
  • To become folded; to form folds.
    • Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
  • (informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
    • The chair folded under his enormous weight.
  • To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Chapter 21
    • He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.
  • To give way on a point or in an argument.
  • (poker) To withdraw from betting.
    • With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded .
  • (cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
    • Fold the egg whites into the batter.
  • (business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
    • The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
  • To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
    • He folded his arms in defiance.
  • To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.
    Synonyms
    * bend, crease * (fall over) fall over * (give way on a point or in an argument) concede, give in, give way, yield
    Antonyms
    * unfold
    Derived terms
    * foldable * foldaway * foldboat * folder * folding money * foldover * fold-down

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of folding.
  • A bend or crease.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • mummies shrouded in a number of folds of linen
  • * J. D. Dana
    • Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
  • Any correct move in origami.
  • A group of sheep or goats.
  • A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
  • (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 .
  • (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold .
  • (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.
  • (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  • That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold .
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
    • Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold , Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute.
    Synonyms
    * (act of folding) bending, creasing. * (bend or crease) bend, crease. * * (correct move in origami)
    Derived terms
    * above the fold * below the fold

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fold, fald, from (etyl) fald, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  • * Milton
    • Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold , didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}
  • (figuratively) Home, family.
  • (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."
  • (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
    • (Creech)
    Synonyms
    * enclosure * pen * penfold, pinfold

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confine sheep in a fold.
    • The star that bids the shepherd fold — Milton.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
    • English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    aspect

    English

    (wikipedia aspect)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
  • The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
  • A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something
  • One's appearance or expression.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Dryden)
    • serious in aspect
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect .}}
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 145:
    • It is Stephen Gardiner, black and scowling, his aspect in no way improved by his trip to Rome.
  • Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
  • Prospect; outlook.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Evelyn)
    • This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended.
  • (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
  • (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
    • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Francis Bacon)
    • The basilisk killeth by aspect .
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Walter Scott)
    • His aspect was bent on the ground.
  • (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Thomas Burnet)
    • the true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • the aspect of affairs
  • (computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.

    • Synonyms

    * (visual expression) blee, appearance, look

    Hyponyms

    (Grammatical aspect) * (grammar) aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect

    Derived terms

    * aspect ratio * aspectual