Purse vs Fold - What's the difference?
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A small bag for carrying money.
* 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
* Shakespeare
To put into a purse.
* Shakespeare
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
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.
English ergative verbs
1000 English basic words
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Purse is a synonym of fold.
As a noun purse
is a small bag for carrying money.As a verb purse
is to press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.As a proper noun fold is
earth.purse
English
(wikipedia purse)Noun
(en noun)- And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
- It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
Synonyms
* (small bag for carrying money) pocketbook; coin purse, change purse * (especially US) * (small bag used by women) handbag (especially UK) * (quantity of money) bursary, grantDerived terms
* common purse * make a silk purse of a sow's ear * murseSee also
* walletVerb
(purs)- When you're feeling in the dumps
- Don't be silly chumps
- Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- I will go and purse the ducats straight.
- I'll purse : I'll bet at bowling alleys.
Synonyms
* puckerAnagrams
* ----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)