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knit
English
Etymology
From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-Germanic *knutjan?, *knuttijan? (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta) and Northern German knütten. More at knot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophone: nit
Verb
knit (third-person singular simple present knits, present participle knitting, simple past and past participle knit or knitted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
- to knit a stocking
- The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
- (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
- The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 26,[1]
- Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
- Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
- To thee I send this written embassage,
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 18:1,[2]
- And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
- 1637, John Milton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 6,[3]
- Come, knit hands, and beate the ground
- In a light fantastick round.
- 1672, Richard Wiseman, A Treatise of Wounds, London: Richard Royston,[4]
- Nature cannot knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge.
- 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, Canto 39, p. 60,[5]
- Her office there to rear, to teach,
- Becoming as is meet and fit
- A link among the days, to knit
- The generations each with each;
- (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- (intransitive) To grow together.
- All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- (transitive) To combine from various elements.
- The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
- (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,[6]
- When your head did but ache,
- I knit my handkercher about your brows,
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Book of Acts 10:11,[7]
- [He] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners […]
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 1,[6]
- (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
- He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,[8]
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- tricot
- weave
Noun
knit (plural knits)
- A knitted garment.
- A session of knitting.
References
- Knitting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- tink
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fold
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)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
- (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.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (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.
- 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- 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)
- An act of folding.
- Synonyms: bending, creasing
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- (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.
- 1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann (?ISBN), page 77:
- 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.
- (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.
- 2010, Richard Bird, Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 168:
- (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)
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- Synonyms: enclosure, pen, penfold, pinfold
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats.
- Synonym: flock
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- Synonyms: home, family
- (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.
- 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.
- (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)
- 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)
- (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)
- fold
- crease
- 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)
- fold, pen
Inflection
Etymology 3
From Old Norse -faldr
Noun
fold n
- multiple
Etymology 4
See folde (“to fold”).
Verb
fold
- 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)
- (poetic) earth, ground, land
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fold
- imperative of folde
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fuld? (“earth, ground; field; the world”).
Noun
fold f
- (poetic) earth, land; field
- 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5:
- 900-1100, The Alvíssmál, verses 9 and 10:
- 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5:
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
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