Fold vs Contract - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between fold and contract

is that fold is to enclose within folded arms (see also enfold) while contract is to gain or acquire (an illness).

In intransitive terms the difference between fold and contract

is that fold is to give way on a point or in an argument while contract is to make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

In obsolete terms the difference between fold and contract

is that fold is a boundary or limit while contract is not abstract; concrete.

As an adjective contract is

contracted; affianced; betrothed.

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 .

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, 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.

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contract

English

(wikipedia contract)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) contract, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of .

Noun

(en noun)

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Hypernyms

* (agreement that is legally binding) agreement

Hyponyms

* (agreement that is legally binding) bailment

Derived terms

* contractual * fixed-term contract * contract of employment

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

* Robert Recorde, , 1557:

But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Ab?tracte'': and other called nombers ''Contracte .

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) contracter, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of . the verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.

Verb

(en verb)

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

The snail's body contracted into its shell.

to contract one's sphere of action

* Wordsworth

Years contracting to a moment.

* Dr. H. More

In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".

To enter into a contract with. (rfex)

To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

* Hakluyt

We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.

* Strype

Many persons prohibited by law.

To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

to contract for carrying the mail

To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.

to contract a debt

* Alexander Pope

Each from each contract new strength and light.

* Jonathan Swift

Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.

To gain or acquire (an illness).

* 1999 , Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals (page 69)

An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

* Shakespeare

Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.

To betroth; to affiance.

* Shakespeare

The truth is, she and I, long since contracted , / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.

Synonyms

* (lessen) abate, decrease, lessen, reduce * (shorten) shorten, shrink * catch, get

Antonyms

* (lessen) increase, expand * (shorten) grow, lengthen