folding
折叠,褶皱,摺叠,折叠式
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Definitions
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- : to bend over upon itself.
- : to bring into a compact form by bending and laying parts together: to fold up a map; to fold one's legs under oneself.
- : to bring together in an intertwined or crossed manner; cross; entwine: He folded his arms on his chest.
- : to bend or wind: to fold one's arms about a person's neck.
- : to bring close to the body, as a bird on alighting.
- : to enclose; wrap; envelop: to fold something in paper.
- : to embrace or clasp; enfold: to fold someone in one's arms.
- : Cards. to place facedown so as to withdraw from the play.
- : Informal. to bring to an end; close up: The owner decided to fold the business and retire.
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- : to be folded or be capable of folding: The doors fold back.
- : Cards. to place one's cards facedown so as to withdraw from the play.
- : Informal. to fail in business; be forced to close: The newspaper folded after 76 years.
- : Informal. to yield or give in: Dad folded and said we could go after all.
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- : a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
- : a crease made by folding: He cut the paper along the fold.
- : a hollow made by folding: to carry something in the fold of one's dress.
- : a hollow place in undulating ground: a fold of the mountains.
- : Geology. a portion of strata that is folded or bent, as an anticline or syncline, or that connects two horizontal or parallel portions of strata of different levels.
- : Journalism. the line formed along the horizontal center of a standard-sized newspaper when it is folded after printing.a rough-and-ready dividing line, especially on the front page and other principal pages, between stories of primary and lesser importance.
- : a coil of a serpent, string, etc.
- : the act of folding or doubling over.
- : Anatomy. a margin or ridge formed by the folding of a membrane or other flat body part; plica.
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- : fold in, Cooking. to mix in or add by gently turning one part over another: Fold in the egg whites.
- : fold up, Informal. to break down; collapse: He folded up when the prosecutor discredited his story.to fail, especially to go out of business.
Phrases
- fold one's tent
- fold up
- return to the fold
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
DeepMind’s technological leap could make accurately predicting these folds a much less time and resource-consuming process, which could dramatically change the pace at which our understanding of diseases and therapeutics progresses.
Adobe hopes that by bringing another marketing tool into the fold, it can help its customers increase the likelihood of a positive online customer experience.
“We’re reaching peak newsletter saturation at this point and there has to be a unique way to bring subscribers into the fold,” said Mike Donoghue, CEO of Subtext.
Earlier this year we showed how to approximate any three-dimensional shape by taking a flat sheet and introducing folds.
Keeping the folds you just made on the inside, fold it like a hot dog bun or a taco shell.
Zalwar Khan returns quickly and begins his morning prayers, spreading out a plastic mat and folding his arms over his chest.
“We got here hours ago,” says a man with a foot brace who's given up his spot in the amorphous line to sit on a folding chair.
In two-thirds of the room, delegates sat in folding chairs across the basketball court, which was covered by mats.
Patients in the former are nearly all black or Hispanic; some fifty or sixty of them wait on folding metal chairs.
As recently as a decade ago, there was serious talk of folding at least three and possibly as many as six franchises.
That folding wireless staff you use on the Marigold is repeated right on the top of that tower.
She was folding and tying with a narrow ribbon some papers as she spoke, and her eyes snapped behind her glasses.
At first geologists were disposed to attribute all the phenomena of mountain-folding to the progressive cooling of the earth.
Lamb could visualize him putting his coat on a hanger, carefully folding a scarf over it.
The owner of the slippers was folding the robe and laying it over the rail, and grumbling to himself all the while.