| inglés > español | |
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| fold | |
| 1. (yo) pliego | |
| 2. (tú) pliegues | |
| 3. dobladura, pliegue | |
| 4. plegar, doblar | |
| inglés > inglés | |
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| fold | |
| 1. v. To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. |  |
| 2. v. To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. | |
| If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds. | |
| Cardboard doesn't fold very easily. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed. | |
| The chair folded under his enormous weight. | |
| 5. v. To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold). | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting. | |
| With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action. | |
| Fold the egg whites into the batter. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade. | |
| The company folded after six quarters of negative growth. | |
| 11. v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands. | |
| He folded his arms in defiance. | |
| 12. v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal. | |
| 13. s. An act of folding. | |
| 14. s. A bend or crease. | |
| 15. s. Any correct move in origami. | |
| 16. s. (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. | |
| 17. s. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold. | |
| 18. s. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace. | |
| 19. s. A group of sheep or goats. | |
| 20. s. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. | |
| 21. s. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together. | |
| 22. s. (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. | |
| 23. s. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value. | |
| 24. s. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. | |
| 25. s. (figuratively) Home, family. | |
| 26. s. (religion, Christian) 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.". | |
| 27. s. (obsolete) A boundary or limit. | |
| 28. v. To confine animals in a fold. | |
| 29. s. (dialectal, poetic, or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country. | |
| español > inglés | |
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| pliegue | |
| 1. n-m. a fold or crease | |
| 2. n-m. a pleat, tuck | |
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