Fold vs Warp - What's the difference?
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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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(obsolete) A throw; a cast.
(dialectal) A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish.
(dialectal) The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid, calf, or foal.
The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
(uncountable) The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
(weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
(nautical) A line or cable used in warping a ship.
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
(dialectal) To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
(dialectal) To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.
(transitive, dialectal, of the wind or sea) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.
(ambitransitive, dialectal, of a door) To throw open; open wide.
To twist or turn something out of shape.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
* , chapter=16
, title= To deflect something from a true or proper course.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Southey
To become twisted out of shape.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Moxon
To go astray or be deflected from a correct course
* (William Shakespeare)
To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 3, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
(obsolete, rare, poetic) To weave, hence (figuratively) to fabricate; plot.
* Sternhold
(nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; especially to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(nautical) (for a ship) To be moved by warping.
To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
* (John Milton)
(agriculture) To let the tide or other water in upon (low-lying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
(ropemaking) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
To travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
In transitive terms the difference between fold and warp
is that fold is to enclose within folded arms (see also enfold) while warp is to deflect something from a true or proper course.In intransitive terms the difference between fold and warp
is that fold is to give way on a point or in an argument while warp is to travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.In obsolete terms the difference between fold and warp
is that fold is a boundary or limit while warp is a throw; a cast.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 .
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. …”}}
- 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
(-)warp
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) warp, werp, from (etyl) wearp, . Cognate with (etyl) warp, (etyl) warp, (etyl) Warf, (etyl) varp, (etyl) varp.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) werpen, weorpen, worpen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The planks looked warped .
- Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
- I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
- We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
- One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp .
- They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping .
- There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp .
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992), passage=It gives a pair of drunken bums direction, purpose and thriving small businesses but it destroys their friendship and warps their morals in the process.}}
- while doth he mischief warp
- (Nares)
- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.
- A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.