Origin of fold
1fold
2noun
verb (used with object)
Origin of fold
2Related Words for folding
curl, crimp, knit, bend, tuck, wrap, collapse, pleat, purse, intertwine, ridge, overlay, overlap, ruck, replicate, hem, ruffle, wrinkle, lap, furrowExamples from the Web for folding
Contemporary Examples of folding
Zalwar Khan returns quickly and begins his morning prayers, spreading out a plastic mat and folding his arms over his chest.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban ValleyMatt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman
November 15, 2014
“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.
Beyonce, Jay Z & No Doubt Sing to End Global Poverty in Central ParkCaitlin Dickson
September 28, 2014
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.
Historical Examples of folding
Into the little parlor filed the nurses, and knelt, folding their tired hands.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
She went to the desk and scratched a line, and folding it, handed it to him.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
So one man went back for a folding boat while the other camped by the stream.
The Leopard WomanStewart Edward White
The folding doors of the chapter-house were opened easily, and they entered.
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
Back he flew and, folding his wings, slipped into the window.
Classic MythsMary Catherine Judd