folding
折叠,褶皱,摺叠,折叠式
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Definitions
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- : to bend over upon itself.
- : to bring into a compact form by bending and laying parts together: to fold up a map; to fold one's legs under oneself.
- : to bring together in an intertwined or crossed manner; cross; entwine: He folded his arms on his chest.
- : to bend or wind: to fold one's arms about a person's neck.
- : to bring close to the body, as a bird on alighting.
- : to enclose; wrap; envelop: to fold something in paper.
- : to embrace or clasp; enfold: to fold someone in one's arms.
- : Cards. to place facedown so as to withdraw from the play.
- : Informal. to bring to an end; close up: The owner decided to fold the business and retire.
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Phrases
- fold one's tent
- fold up
- return to the fold
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Examples
DeepMind’s technological leap could make accurately predicting these folds a much less time and resource-consuming process, which could dramatically change the pace at which our understanding of diseases and therapeutics progresses.
Adobe hopes that by bringing another marketing tool into the fold, it can help its customers increase the likelihood of a positive online customer experience.
“We’re reaching peak newsletter saturation at this point and there has to be a unique way to bring subscribers into the fold,” said Mike Donoghue, CEO of Subtext.
Earlier this year we showed how to approximate any three-dimensional shape by taking a flat sheet and introducing folds.
Keeping the folds you just made on the inside, fold it like a hot dog bun or a taco shell.
Zalwar Khan returns quickly and begins his morning prayers, spreading out a plastic mat and folding his arms over his chest.
“We got here hours ago,” says a man with a foot brace who's given up his spot in the amorphous line to sit on a folding chair.
In two-thirds of the room, delegates sat in folding chairs across the basketball court, which was covered by mats.
Patients in the former are nearly all black or Hispanic; some fifty or sixty of them wait on folding metal chairs.
As recently as a decade ago, there was serious talk of folding at least three and possibly as many as six franchises.
That folding wireless staff you use on the Marigold is repeated right on the top of that tower.