fold vs paddock

fold

verb
  • To confine animals in a fold. 

  • To stir gently, with a folding action. 

  • To fall over; to be crushed. 

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

  • To give way on a point or in an argument. 

  • To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold). 

  • To become folded; to form folds. 

  • To withdraw from betting. 

  • To withdraw or quit in general. 

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

  • To cover or wrap up; to conceal. 

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

  • Of a company, to cease to trade. 

noun
  • A group of sheep or goats. 

  • A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability. 

  • Home, family. 

  • 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. 

  • An act of folding. 

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

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

  • A bend or crease. 

  • Any correct move in origami. 

  • A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • 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. 

paddock

verb
  • To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture. 

  • To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock. 

  • To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit). 

noun
  • An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race. 

  • A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals. 

  • A field on which a game is played; a playing field. 

  • A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep. 

  • A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc. 

  • A toad. 

  • An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races. 

  • A frog. 

  • A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items. 

  • A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person. 

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