Foldest vs Coldest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (fold)
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
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, 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.
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(cold)
(label) Having a low temperature.
*
(label) Causing the air to be cold.
(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):
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Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
(label) Cornered, done for.
*
(label) Not pungent or acrid.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
(label) Not sensitive; not acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .
(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
A condition of low temperature.
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
While at low temperature.
Without preparation.
With finality.
As a verb foldest
is archaic second-person singular of fold.As an adjective coldest is
superlative of cold.foldest
English
Verb
(head)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
(-)coldest
English
Adjective
(head)cold
English
Adjective
(er)- RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .
- cold plants
- What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
- The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.
- Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
Synonyms
* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See alsoAntonyms
* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, readyDerived terms
* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water onNoun
(en noun)- Come in, out of the cold .
- I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.
Synonyms
* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head coldDerived terms
* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head coldCoordinate terms
* freeze, frostAdverb
(en adverb)- ''The steel was processed cold .
- The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
- I knocked him out cold .