Folder vs. Fold

An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.

Example: ‘I keep all my schoolwork in a yellow folder.’;

(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.

Example: ‘My essays are in the folder named "Essays".’;

A machine or person that folds things.

A folding knife.

One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

a small book usually having a paper cover

covering that is folded over to protect the contents

(transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

(transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

Example: ‘If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.’;

(intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.

Example: ‘Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.’;

To fall over; to be crushed.

Example: ‘The chair folded under his enormous weight.’;

(transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).

(intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.

To withdraw from betting.

Example: ‘With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.’;

To withdraw or quit in general.

To stir gently, with a folding action.

Example: ‘Fold the egg whites into the batter.’;

Of a company, to cease to trade.

Example: ‘The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.’;

To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.

Example: ‘He folded his arms in defiance.’;

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

To confine animals in a fold.

An act of folding.

A bend or crease.

Any correct move in origami.

(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.

The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.

(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.

In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

(collective) A group of sheep or goats.

(figuratively) Home, family.

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.

A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.

(obsolete) A boundary or limit.

The Earth; earth; land, country.

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

Example: ‘As a vesture shalt thou fold them up.’;

To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.

Example: ‘A face folded in sorrow.’; ‘We will descend and fold him in our arms.’;

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

Example: ‘Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses.’;

To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.

To confine in a fold, as sheep.

To confine sheep in a fold.

Example: ‘The star that bids the shepherd fold.’;

A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.

Example: ‘Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen.’; ‘Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions.’;

Times or repetitions; - used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.

That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.

Example: ‘Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold.’;

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

Example: ‘Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.’;

A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.

Example: ‘There shall be one fold and one shepherd.’; ‘The very whitest lamb in all my fold.’;

A boundary; a limit.

an angular or rounded shape made by folding;

Example: ‘a fold in the napkin’; ‘a crease in his trousers’; ‘a plication on her blouse’; ‘a flexure of the colon’; ‘a bend of his elbow’;

a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

a folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle)

a pen for sheep

the act of folding;

Example: ‘he gave the napkins a double fold’;

bend or lay so that one part covers the other;

Example: ‘fold up the newspaper’; ‘turn up your collar’;

intertwine;

Example: ‘fold one's hands, arms, or legs’;

incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating;

Example: ‘Fold the egg whites into the batter’;

cease to operate or cause to cease operating;

Example: ‘The owners decided to move and to close the factory’; ‘My business closes every night at 8 P.M.’;

confine in a fold, like sheep

become folded or folded up;

Example: ‘The bed folds in a jiffy’;