0 past simple and past participle of fold --
1 to bend something, especially paper or cloth, so that one part of it lies on the other part, or to be able to be bent in this way: --
2 (of a business) to close because of failure: --
Many small businesses fold within the first year.
The success of loosely folded paper has one simple explanation; the greater surface area of paper immediately available for gnawing.
The unstable or partially folded mutant protein does not undergo trafficking and is usually rapidly degraded.
Her eyes fell on the old man, who, with his hands folded, quietly looked on.
Prior to acquisition of desiccation tolerance, seeds produced seedlings with either shortened radicle tips, unexpanded hypocotyls or folded cotyledons.
We also showed when the folded query yields all or only some of the answers of the original query.
This has led to the design of a mutant that is folded and functional even in the absence of the carbohydrate.
As a result, the number of define steps is finite as all re-occurring expressions will be folded.
On request, the collected constraints on a par t can be folded into queries that retrieve candidates.