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Fold can be a verb or a noun.
fold used as a verb:
- to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- to make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
"If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer." - (Informal) to fall over.
- to give way on a point or in an argument.
- (poker) To withdraw from betting.
- To stir gently, with a folding action.
"Fold the egg whites into the batter." - Of a company, to cease to trade.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
fold used as a noun:
- An act of folding.
- A bend or crease.
- Any correct move in origami.
- 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.
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- 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.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
"John, X, 16: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."" - (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is fold?
- Verb usage: If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
- Verb usage: Fold the egg whites into the batter.
- Noun usage: John, X, 16: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of fold are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of fold, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).