fold vs retire

fold

verb
  • To withdraw or quit in general. 

  • 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 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. 

  • To confine animals in a fold. 

  • 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. 

retire

verb
  • To withdraw; to take away. 

  • To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness. 

  • To cease use or production of something. 

  • To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy. 

  • To fit (a vehicle) with new tires. 

  • To recede; to fall or bend back. 

  • To go to bed. 

  • To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat. 

  • To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure. 

  • To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay. 

  • To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list. 

  • To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. 

noun
  • The act of retiring, or the state of being retired. 

  • A place to which one retires. 

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