fold

1. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.obsolete

2. (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.Examples: "The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become gentle undulations"

3. (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.Examples: "Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack."

4. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.Examples: "For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information."broadly

5. (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.Examples: "It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it."

6. (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.

1. (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.Synonyms: flockcollective

2. (figuratively) Home, family.Synonyms: home, familyfiguratively

3. (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.Examples: "And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold, and one shepheard."Synonyms: congregation, flock

4. (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.Examples: "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."; "Most recently, in his ambitious 2015 book, Leaving the Jewish Fold, Endelman significantly enlarges his purview in both time and space to broadly survey the phenomenon of Jewish conversion from early medieval to postmodern times […]"; "In a first phase of foreign policy, after 1945, my country sought to regain former enemies’ trust. We are forever grateful that they extended their hand to us, readmitting us into the global fold."Synonyms: cohort, communityfiguratively

1. (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.Examples: "The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold."; "On the same day [Midsummer Eve] people in the Isle of Man were wont to light fires to the windward of every field, so that the smoke might pass over the corn; and they folded their cattle and carried blazing furze or gorse round them several times."transitive

2. (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.figurativelytransitive

3. (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.transitive

1. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.dialectalobsoletepoeticuncountable