different between fold vs spread

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??ld/
• (General American) enPR: f?ld, IPA^(key): /fo?ld/
• Homophone: foaled
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþan? (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).

Verb

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past folded, past participle folded or (obsolete) folden)

1. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
2. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

3. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.

4. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.

5. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.

6. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
7. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.

8. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
9. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
   • 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe

     if you want to make life really easy for yourself, may I point you in the direction of Sunflour’s recipe, which folds four eggs and 150g ground almonds into 500g chocolate spread.

10. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.

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

12. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

Synonyms

• (bend (thin material) over): bend, crease
• (fall over): fall over
• (give way on a point or in an argument): concede, give in, give way, yield

Antonyms

• unfold

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Czech: foldovat

Translations

Noun

fold (plural folds)

1. An act of folding.

   Synonyms: bending, creasing

2. A bend or crease.

   Synonyms: bend, crease

   • 1863, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology

     The folds are most abrupt to the eastward ; to the west , they diminish in boldness , and become gentle undulations

3. Any correct move in origami.
4. (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.
   • 2007, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (?ISBN), page 43:

     Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.

5. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
   • 1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann (?ISBN), page 77:

     For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.

6. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
7. (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.
8. (computing theory) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
   • 2010, Richard Bird, Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 168:

     It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it.

9. (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.

Derived terms

• above the fold
• below the fold
• centrefold, centerfold

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”). Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, v?lt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”).

Noun

fold (plural folds)

2. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

   Synonyms: enclosure, pen, penfold, pinfold
3. (collective) A group of sheep or goats.

   Synonym: flock

4. (figuratively) Home, family.

   Synonyms: home, family

5. (religion, Christian) 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.

   Synonyms: congregation, flock

   • Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.

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

   Synonym: cohort

   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[2]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold, Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute.

7. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Creech to this entry?)

Translations

Verb

fold (third-person singular simple present folds, present participle folding, simple past and past participle folded)

1. To confine animals in a fold.

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuld?, *fuld? (“earth, ground; field; the world”). Cognate with Old Norse fold (“earth, land, field”), Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”).

Noun

fold (uncountable)

1. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

Anagrams

• FLOD

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l/, [f?l?]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

from Old Norse faldr (“seam”).

Noun

fold c (singular definite folden, plural indefinite folder)

1. fold
2. crease
3. wrinkle

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Danish fald, from Middle Low German valde, from Old Saxon *faled, from Proto-Germanic *faludaz.

Noun

fold c (singular definite folden, plural indefinite folde)

1. fold, pen

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Old Norse -faldr

Noun

fold n

1. multiple

Etymology 4

See folde (“to fold”).

Verb

fold

1. imperative of folde

See also

• fold on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?lt]
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

fold f (genitive singular foldar, nominative plural foldir)

1. (poetic) earth, ground, land

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fold

1. imperative of folde

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fuld? (“earth, ground; field; the world”).

Noun

fold f

1. (poetic) earth, land; field
   • 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5:

   • 900-1100, The Alvíssmál, verses 9 and 10:

Descendants

• Icelandic: fold
• ? Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Vestfold, Østfold
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Vestfold, Østfold

References

• fold in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Middle English spreden, from Old English spr?dan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijan? (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spern?, sparg?, Ancient Greek ?????? (speír?), Persian ?????? (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

spread (third-person singular simple present spreads, present participle spreading, simple past and past participle spread)

1. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space. [from 13th c.]

2. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. [from 13th c.]

3. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. [from 13th c.]

4. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated. [from 13th c.]
5. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present. [from 14th c.]

6. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. [from 14th c.]

7. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. [from 16th c.]

8. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter. [from 16th c.]

9. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

   to spread a table

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.

10. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours. [from 20th c.]
    • 1984, Martin Amis, Money:

      This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread, bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.

    • 1991, Tori Amos, Me and a Gun:

      Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?

    • 2003, Outkast, "Spread" (from the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below):

      I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread, spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)

Synonyms

• disseminate
• circulate
• propagate
• diffuse
• put about

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spread (countable and uncountable, plural spreads)

1. The act of spreading.
2. Something that has been spread.
3. (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
4. An expanse of land.
   • November 29, 1712, Andrew Freeport, a letter to The Spectator

     I have got a fine spread of improvable lands.

5. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
   • 2005, Brokeback Mountain (film), 00:11:50:

     - Can’t wait till I get my own spread and won’t have to put up with Joe Aguirre’s crap no more.
     - I’m savin’ for a place myself.

6. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
   • 1975, Douglas Matthews, ?Suzanne Wymelenberg, ?Susan Cheever Cowley, Secondhand is Better (page 166)

     Linen shawls and spreads show up in secondhand clothing stores like those in the row on St. Marks Place in New York City.

7. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
8. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
9. (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.

   Synonym: swole

10. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
11. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
12. A numerical difference.
13. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
14. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
15. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
16. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
17. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
18. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
19. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
20. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
21. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

Synonyms

• straddle

Translations

Further reading

• spread in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• spread in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Padres, Persad, drapes, dreaps, padres, parsed, rasped, repads, spader, spared

Italian

Etymology

English spread

Noun

spread m (invariable)

1. (trading, finance) The difference between returns or between quotations of multiple securities or of the same security over the course of a day.
2. A contract awarding which offers the buyer the widest range of bargaining possibilities.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English spread.

Noun

spread m (plural spreads)

1. (business, economics) spread (the difference between the wholesale and retail prices)
2. (finance, economics) difference between the interest rate a bank charges to a client and the interest rate it pays