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FOLD

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

FOLD is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

FOLDS-s 2 FOLDING-ing 5 FOLDED-ed 3

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FOLDINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
    • Next, fold the paper over, so the right half is on top of the left half.
    • The newspaper was folded under his arm.
  2. transitiveTo make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
    • If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
    • The clothes were folded by the housekeeper.
  3. transitiveTo draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
  4. transitiveTo stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
    • Fold the egg whites into the batter.
  5. intransitiveTo become folded; to form folds.
    • Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
  6. informalintransitiveTo fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
    • The chair folded under his enormous weight.
  7. intransitivetransitiveTo give way on a point or in an argument.
    • He folded that point and didn't bring it up again.
    • He kept saying it was my fault, but when I brought up Sausalito, he folded.
  8. intransitiveTo withdraw from betting.
    • With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.
  9. broadlyintransitiveTo withdraw or quit in general.
  10. intransitiveTo fail, to collapse, to disband.
  11. intransitiveOf a company, to cease to trade.
    • The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
  12. transitiveTo double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
    • He folded his arms in defiance.
  13. obsoletetransitiveTo plait or mat (hair) together.
  14. transitiveTo enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
  15. transitiveTo enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
  16. figurativelytransitiveTo cover up, to conceal.
  17. obsoletetransitiveTo ensnare, to capture.
  18. transitiveTo split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
  19. transitiveTo confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
  20. figurativelytransitiveTo include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
  21. transitiveTo place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
noun
  1. An act of folding.
    • give the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard.
    • After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option for this poker hand was probably a fold.
  2. Any correct move in origami.
  3. A bend or crease.
  4. A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
  5. A clasp, embrace.
  6. A coil of a snake’s body.
  7. obsoleteA wrapping or covering.
  8. One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
  9. A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. broadlyThe division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
  13. Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
  14. A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
  15. One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
  16. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
  17. Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
  18. An enclosure or dwelling generally.
  19. collectiveA group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
  20. figurativelyHome, family.
  21. A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
  22. figurativelyA group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
  23. dialectalobsoletepoeticuncountableThe Earth; earth; land, country.