Fondest vs Foldest - What's the difference?

fondest | foldest |

As an adjective fondest

is superlative of fond.

As a verb foldest is

archaic second-person singular of fold.

fondest

English

Adjective

(head)

(fond)

fond

English

Adjective

(er)

(chiefly, with of) Having a liking or affection (for).

* Shakespeare

more fond on her than she upon her love

* Irving

a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures

a fond farewell

a fond mother or wife

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I have fond grandparents who spoil me.

; foolish; silly.

Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality.

(obsolete) Foolish; simple; weak.

* Shakespeare

Grant I may never prove so fond / To trust man on his oath or bond.

(obsolete) Doted on; regarded with affection.

* Byron

Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* fondly * fondness * overfond

Noun

(en noun)

The background design in lace-making.

(cooking) brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables.

He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.

(obsolete) To caress; to fondle.

* Dryden

The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

foldest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (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 .

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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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