Definition of fold

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Fold (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace..

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Verso :: Verso (n.) The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto..
Unweave :: Unweave (v. t.) To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven..
Disinvolve :: Disinvolve (v. t.) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
Triplication :: Triplication (n.) The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together..
Thousandfold :: Thousandfold (a.) Multiplied by a thousand.
Folding :: Folding (n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication..
Unblindfold :: Unblindfold (v. t.) To free from that which blindfolds.
Implicate :: Implicate (v. t.) To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
Wimple :: Wimple (v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water..
Three-ply :: Three-ply (a.) Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold..
Treble :: Treble (v. i.) To become threefold.
Octodecimo :: Octodecimo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18ยก, and called eighteenmo..
Tri- :: Tri- () A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate..
Turbinella :: Turbinella (n.) A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Trigesimo-secundo :: Trigesimo-secundo (n.) A book composed of sheets so folded that each one makes thirty-two leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 32mo, or 32?, and called thirty-twomo..
Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..
Integration :: Integration (n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
Twentyfold :: Twentyfold (a.) Twenty times as many.
Vernation :: Vernation (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation..
Hermeneutical :: Hermeneutical (a.) Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase..
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