Fold vs Folk - What's the difference?
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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.
To become folded; to form folds.
(informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Chapter 21
To give way on a point or in an argument.
(poker) To withdraw from betting.
(cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
(business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
* Shakespeare
An act of folding.
A bend or crease.
* Francis Bacon
* J. D. Dana
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
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (figuratively) Home, family.
(religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
(obsolete) A boundary or limit.
(dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
English ergative verbs
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Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
* J. R. Green
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
*1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
*:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
(music) Folk music.
(plural only) People in general.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (plural only) A particular group of people.
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As nouns the difference between fold and folk
is that fold is an act of folding while folk is a grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.As a verb fold
is to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.As an adjective folk is
of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.fold
English
(wikipedia fold)Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) falda (Danish folde).Verb
- If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
- Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
- The chair folded under his enormous weight.
- 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.
- With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded .
- Fold the egg whites into the batter.
- The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
- He folded his arms in defiance.
- 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, yieldAntonyms
* unfoldDerived terms
* foldable * foldaway * foldboat * folder * folding money * foldover * fold-downNoun
(en noun)- mummies shrouded in a number of folds of linen
- Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.
- Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold .
- 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 foldEtymology 2
From (etyl) fold, fald, from (etyl) fald, .Noun
(en noun)- Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold .
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- John , X, 16 : "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
- (Creech)
Synonyms
* enclosure * pen * penfold, pinfoldEtymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)folk
English
Alternative forms
* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)Adjective
(-)- folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics
Noun
(en-noun)- The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
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