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nappe
English
Etymology
From French nappe.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /nap/
Noun
nappe (plural nappes)
- The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
- (mathematics) Either of the two parts of a double cone.
- (geology) A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 96:
- The generation of an Alpine mountain range is a matter of piling on the nappes.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 96:
- (hydraulics) Geological nappe whose underside is not in contact with the overflow structure and is at ambient atmospheric pressure.
- (cooking) The ability of a liquid to coat the back of a spoon, etc.
Translations
Verb
nappe (third-person singular simple present nappes, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)
- (cooking) To coat (a food) with liquid.
- to nappe a leg of lamb with glaze
Anagrams
- 'appen, NAEPP
French
Etymology
From Latin mappa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nap/
Noun
nappe f (plural nappes)
- tablecloth
- layer (of gas, oil etc.); sheet (of water)
- ribbon cable
- une nappe IDE
Derived terms
- nappe phréatique
Verb
nappe
- first-person singular present indicative of napper
- third-person singular present indicative of napper
- first-person singular present subjunctive of napper
- third-person singular present subjunctive of napper
- second-person singular imperative of napper
Further reading
- “nappe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -appe
Noun
nappe f
- plural of nappa
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hnæpp.
Noun
nappe
- Alternative form of nap (“drinking bowl”)
Etymology 2
A back-formation from nappen.
Noun
nappe
- Alternative form of nap (“nap”)
Etymology 3
From Old English hnappian.
Verb
nappe
- Alternative form of nappen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Related to Old Norse hneppa
Verb
nappe (imperative napp, present tense napper, passive nappes, simple past and past participle nappa or nappet, present participle nappende)
- to grab, snatch
- to pluck, yank
References
- “nappe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English nap.
Noun
nappe
- a nap, sleep
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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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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