Noun (1)
ready to welcome their old Liberal friend back into the foldVerb (2)fold the blanket so that it will fit inside the trunk
the business folded after just two months Suffix
It will repay you tenfold.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
At Bar Martínez, this high-quality tuna gets flaked and folded into a thick tartar sauce, then stuffed into a sweet, roasted, ruby-red piquillo pepper.—Marti Buckley, Saveur, 30 May 2024 In some markets, home insurers have ceased business entirely, citing operating costs: In Florida, one of the costliest markets nationwide because of its exposure to Atlantic hurricanes, nine insurers folded or merged with competitors between 2021 and 2023.—Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 29 May 2024
Noun
But nearly 60 years later, after increasing the computing power of ordinary machines by about 100,000 fold, Moore’s law may be on the verge of being overturned.—Peter Green, Quartz, 11 May 2024 Once rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, the two men later joined forces to assemble half a dozen policy task forces that underpinned the party’s policy platform later that year — an unusual endeavor that helped bring the Democratic socialist’s supporters into Biden’s fold.—Seung Min Kim, Fortune, 7 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for fold
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Word History
Etymology
Verb (1)
Middle English, from Old English fealdan; akin to Old High German faldan to fold, Greek diplasios twofold
Noun (2) and Verb (2)
Middle English, from Old English falod; akin to Old Saxon faled enclosure
Suffix
Middle English, from Old English -feald; akin to Old High German -falt -fold, Latin -plex, -plus, Old English fealdan
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