fold

To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.

To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.

To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.

Fold the egg whites into the batter.

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.

To become folded; to form folds.

Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.

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 was probably a fold.

An act of folding.

That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

[…] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man; Who broke our fair companionship, ⁠And spread his mantle dark and cold; And wrapt thee formless in the fold, […]

That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

[…] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […]

That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

[…] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […]

A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

Leaps o're the fence with ease into the fold.

“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”

Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.

An enclosure or dwelling generally.

A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.

Home, family.