Fold

Definition

fold 1 /fǝƱld / v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (up) ; ~ sth (back, down, over, etc ) ေခါက္သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ fold clothes (up) neatly ❍ fold the sheet down ❍ The flag was folded away for another year. ❍ The top of the bag was folded over and stapled. ❍ a folded newspaper ❍ The bird folded its wings. ❍ Fold the letter (in two) before putting it in the envelope. (ခ) ~ (up) ေခါက္သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ The garden table folds (away / up) flat. ❍ a folding chair / bed / bicycle. ၂။ ~ A in B : ~ B round A ထုပ္သည္။ Fold the glass bowl in newspaper. ❍ Fold newspaper round the glass bowl. Compare UNFOLD ၃။ ~ (up) ( infml ) (က) (လုပ္ငန္းကိုင္ငန္း) ပ်က္သြားသည္၊ ပိတ္လိုက္သည္။ The company folded (up) last week. (ခ) (ဇာတ္စသည္) ဆက္ မကႏိုင္၊ ဖ်ာလိပ္သည္။ The show folded after only a week. n ၁။ (က) အေခါက္။ a dress hanging in loose folds ❍ folds of skin. (ခ) ေခါက္ရာ။ ေခါက္႐ိုး။ ၂။ (ေတာင္ၾကားရိွ) ခ်ဳိင္၊ ခ်ဳိင့္။ ၃။ ( geology ) လႊာတြန္႔။ ❏ fold one's arms [ IDM ] လက္ပိုက္သည္။ ❏ fold one's hands [ IDM ] လက္ခ်င္းယွက္ထားသည္။ She sat quite still, her hands folded in her lap. ❏ fold sb/sth in one's arms [ IDM ] ေပြ႕ပိုက္ထားသည္။ ဖက္ထားသည္။ The father folded the tiny child in his arms. ❏ fold sth in ; fold sth into sth [ PHRV ] (ၾကက္ဥစသည္) ထည့္ေခါက္သည္။ Fold in the beaten whites of two eggs. fold 2 /fǝƱld / n ၁။ [C] သိုးၿခံ။ ၂။ the fold [sing] အသိုင္း အဝိုင္း။ ေလာက။ ေဘာင္။ leave the party fold ❍ Although he ran away from home five years ago, his family are still hoping he will return to the fold. -fold suff (with numbers forming adjs and advs ) … ဆ။ tenfold ❍ twofold.

Examples

1. Carrie folded the letter and slid it into a drawer.
2. [fold something in half/two] : Fold the paper in half diagonally.
3. [fold something neatly/carefully] : She folded the towel neatly and hung it over the rail.
4. [fold something over/back/down] : Fold the left flap over and hold it down.
5. [fold something in something] : She picked up the insect and gently folded it in a handkerchief.
6. [fold something around something] : He folded the newspaper carefully around the plants.
7. Jim folded the penknife and slipped it into his pocket.
8. [fold (something) up/down/away] : The bed folds away conveniently for storage.
9. [fold (something) flat] : The table folds flat for easy storage.
10. Sue felt her legs folding under her
11. then she fainted.