FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n An act of folding.

v (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

v (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

v (intransitive|informal) To fall over; to be crushed.

v (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).

v (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.

v (intransitive|poker) To withdraw from betting.

v (transitive|cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.

v (intransitive|business) Of a company, to cease to trade.

n A bend or crease.

n Any correct move in origami.

n (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.

n (by extension|web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

n (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.

n (computing|programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

n A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

n (figuratively) Home, family.

n (religion|Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.

n (obsolete) A boundary or limit.

v To confine sheep in a fold.

n (dialectal|poetic|or|obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.