Folded vs Fouled - What's the difference?

folded | fouled |

As verbs the difference between folded and fouled

is that folded is (fold) while fouled is (foul).

folded

English

Verb

(head)

(fold)

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.

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fouled

English

Verb

(head)

(foul)

Anagrams

foul

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Covered with, or containing unclean matter; polluted; nasty; defiled

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

obscene or profane; abusive.

Hateful; detestable; unpleasant

* Milton

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

(obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.

* Shakespeare

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.

Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.

* Shakespeare

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

Not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating.

(nautical) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; - opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.

Usage notes

* Nouns to which "foul" is often applied: play, ball, language, breath, smell, odor, water, weather, deed.

Synonyms

* shameful; odious; wretched

Derived terms

* afoul * befoul * fall foul * nonfoul * nonfouling

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To make dirty.

to foul the face or hands with mire

She's fouled her diaper.

To besmirch.

He's fouled his reputation.

To clog or obstruct.

The hair has fouled the drain.

(nautical) To entangle.

The kelp has fouled the prop.

(basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.

Smith fouled him hard.

(baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.

Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.

To become clogged.

''The drain fouled .

To become entangled.

The prop fouled on the kelp.

(basketball) To commit a foul.

Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.

(baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.

Jones fouled for strike one.

Noun

(en noun)

(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; as, for example, foot-tripping in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Arindam Rej , title=Norwich 4 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.
Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}

(bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.

(baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

Jones hit a foul up over the screen.

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