{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "foʊld" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fold.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fold.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).", "From Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”). Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, vālt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”).", "From Middle English folde, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuldǭ, *fuldō (“earth, ground; field; the world”). Cognate with Old Norse fold (“earth, land, field”), Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.\nIf you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.\nCardboard doesn't fold very easily." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.\nThe chair folded under his enormous weight." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold)." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.\nWith no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general." }, { "mean": "(transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.\nFold the egg whites into the batter." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.\nThe company folded after six quarters of negative growth." }, { "mean": "To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.\nHe folded his arms in defiance." }, { "mean": "To cover or wrap up; to conceal." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "An act of folding.\ngive the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard.\nAfter two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option was probably a fold.\nSynonyms: bending, creasing" }, { "mean": "A bend or crease.\nSynonyms: bend, crease" }, { "mean": "Any correct move in origami." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold." }, { "mean": "That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(computing theory) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value." }, { "mean": "(programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.\nSynonyms: enclosure, pen, penfold, pinfold" }, { "mean": "(collective) A group of sheep or goats.\nSynonym: flock" }, { "mean": "(figuratively) Home, family.\nSynonyms: home, family" }, { "mean": "(Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.\nSynonyms: congregation, flock" }, { "mean": "A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.\nSynonym: cohort" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To confine animals in a fold.\n1634 October 9 (first performance), , H Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:  , London: for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus:  (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:The star that bids the shepherd fold,Now the top of heaven doth hold." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "fold (uncountable)\n\n(dialectal,poeticorobsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(bend (thin material) over): bend, crease", "(fall over): fall over", "(give way on a point or in an argument): concede, give in, give way, yield" ], "kor": [ "", "", "" ] } } }