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
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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."
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Family as a noun (countable):
An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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'"
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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'"
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Family as a noun:
Examples:
"The dog was kept as a family pet."
"For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic."
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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."
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Family as an adjective:
Conservative, traditional.
Examples:
"The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality."
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Family as an adjective (slang):
Homosexual.
Examples:
"I knew he was family when I first met him."
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Fold as a verb (transitive):
To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
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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."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive):
To become folded; to form folds.
Examples:
"Cardboard doesn't fold very easily."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To fall over; to be crushed.
Examples:
"The chair folded under his enormous weight."
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Fold as a verb (transitive):
To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
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Fold as a verb (intransitive):
To give way on a point or in an argument.
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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."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, by extension):
To withdraw or quit in general.
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Fold as a verb (transitive, cooking):
To stir gently, with a folding action.
Examples:
"Fold the egg whites into the batter."
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Fold as a verb (intransitive, business):
Of a company, to cease to trade.
Examples:
"The company folded after six quarters of negative growth."
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Fold as a verb:
To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
Examples:
"He folded his arms in defiance."
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Fold as a verb:
To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
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Fold as a noun:
An act of folding.
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Fold as a noun:
A bend or crease.
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Fold as a noun:
Any correct move in origami.
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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.
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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.
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Fold as a noun:
That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
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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.
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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.
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Fold as a noun:
A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
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Fold as a noun:
A group of sheep or goats.
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Fold as a noun (figuratively):
Home, family.
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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."
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Fold as a noun:
A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
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Fold as a noun (obsolete):
A boundary or limit.
Examples:
"rfquotek Creech"
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Fold as a verb:
To confine animals in a fold.
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Fold as a noun (dialectal, poetic, or, obsolete):
The Earth; earth; land, country.