The difference between Family and Fold

When used as nouns, family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption), whereas fold means an act of folding.


Family is also adjective with the meaning: suitable for children and adults.

Fold is also verb with the meaning: to bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

check bellow for the other definitions of Family and Fold

  1. Family as a noun (countable):

    A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

    Examples:

    "Our family lives in town."

  2. Family as a noun (countable):

    An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

  3. Family as a noun (countable):

    A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

    Examples:

    "crime family'', ''Mafia family'"

    "This is my fraternity family at the university."

    "Our company is [[one]] [[big]] [[happy]] family."

  4. Family as a noun (countable, taxonomy):

    A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

    Examples:

    "Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae."

  5. Family as a noun (countable):

    Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

    Examples:

    "Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family."

  6. Family as a noun (countable, music):

    A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

    Examples:

    "the brass family;  the violin family'"

  7. Family as a noun (countable, linguistics):

    A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

    Examples:

    "the Indo-European language family;  the Afro-Asiatic language family'"

  8. Family as a noun:

    Examples:

    "The dog was kept as a family pet."

    "For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic."

  1. Family as an adjective:

    Suitable for children and adults.

    Examples:

    "It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant."

    "Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies."

  2. Family as an adjective:

    Conservative, traditional.

    Examples:

    "The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality."

  3. Family as an adjective (slang):

    Homosexual.

    Examples:

    "I knew he was family when I first met him."

  1. Fold as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Fold as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

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

  3. Fold as a verb (intransitive):

    To become folded; to form folds.

    Examples:

    "Cardboard doesn't fold very easily."

  4. Fold as a verb (intransitive, informal):

    To fall over; to be crushed.

    Examples:

    "The chair folded under his enormous weight."

  5. Fold as a verb (transitive):

    To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).

  6. Fold as a verb (intransitive):

    To give way on a point or in an argument.

  7. Fold as a verb (intransitive, poker):

    To withdraw from betting.

    Examples:

    "With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded."

  8. Fold as a verb (intransitive, by extension):

    To withdraw or quit in general.

  9. Fold as a verb (transitive, cooking):

    To stir gently, with a folding action.

    Examples:

    "Fold the egg whites into the batter."

  10. Fold as a verb (intransitive, business):

    Of a company, to cease to trade.

    Examples:

    "The company folded after six quarters of negative growth."

  11. Fold as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "He folded his arms in defiance."

  12. Fold as a verb:

    To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

  1. Fold as a noun:

    An act of folding.

  2. Fold as a noun:

    A bend or crease.

  3. Fold as a noun:

    Any correct move in origami.

  4. Fold as a noun (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.

  5. Fold as a noun (by extension, web design):

    The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.

  6. Fold as a noun:

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

  7. Fold as a noun (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. Fold as a noun (computing, programming):

    In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

  1. Fold as a noun:

    A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

  2. Fold as a noun:

    A group of sheep or goats.

  3. Fold as a noun (figuratively):

    Home, family.

  4. Fold as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "'John, ''X, 16'': "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold."

  5. Fold as a noun:

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

  6. Fold as a noun (obsolete):

    A boundary or limit.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Creech"

  1. Fold as a verb:

    To confine animals in a fold.

  1. Fold as a noun (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete):

    The Earth; earth; land, country.