Land vs Fold - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between land and fold

is that land is the part of earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water while fold is an act of folding or fold can be a pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals or fold can be (dialectal|poetic|or|obsolete) the earth; earth; land, country.

As verbs the difference between land and fold

is that land is to descend to a surface, especially from the air while fold is to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself or fold can be to confine sheep in a fold.

As a adjective land

is of or relating to land.

land

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

Noun

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

Most insects live on land .

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

A country or region.

They come from a faraway land .

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes

realm, domain.

I'm going to Disneyland .

Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

(Irish English, colloquial) A fright.

He got an awful land when the police arrived.

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

* Spenser

Herself upon the land she did prostrate.

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

(Knight)

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

# (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

* {{quote-book

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Derived terms

* bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodland

Verb

(en verb)

To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

The plane is about to land .

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

* 1859 , “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways , page 108:

10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed .

To come into rest.

To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.

To bring to land.

It can be tricky to land a helicopter .

Use the net to land the fish.

* Shakespeare

I'll undertake to land them on our coast.

To acquire; to secure.

* {{quote-news

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To deliver.

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * relland

Adjective

(-)

Of or relating to land.

Residing or growing on land.

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

lant; urine

(Webster 1913)

Statistics

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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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(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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