Crush vs. Fold — What's the Difference?

To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure

To bend over or double up so that one part lies on another part

To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.

To make compact by doubling or bending over parts

To put down with force; subdue

To bring from an extended to a closed position

To overwhelm or oppress severely

To bring from a compact to an extended position; unfold

To defeat overwhelmingly

To place together and intertwine

To crumple or rumple

To envelop or clasp; enfold

To hug, especially with great force.

To blend (a light ingredient) into a heavier mixture with a series of gentle turns

To hit or propel with great force

(Informal) To discontinue operating; close

To press upon, shove, or crowd.

(Games) To withdraw (one's hand) in defeat, as by laying cards face down on a table.

To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing

(Geology) To form bends in (a stratum of rock).

To be or become crushed

To become folded.

To proceed or move by crowding or pressing

To be capable of being folded

The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing

(Informal) To close, especially for lack of financial success; fail.

A great crowd

(Games) To withdraw from a game in defeat.

A substance prepared by or as if by crushing, especially a fruit drink

To give in; buckle

A usually temporary infatuation

To weaken or collapse from exertion.

One who is the object of such an infatuation.

To place or keep (sheep, for example) in a fenced enclosure.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

The act or an instance of folding.

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

A part that has been folded over or against another

A violent crowding.

A line or mark made by folding; a crease

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

A coil or bend, as of rope.

(slang) A group or gang.

Chiefly British A hill or dale in undulating country.

A crowd control barrier.

(Geology) A bend in a stratum of rock.

A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

(Anatomy) A crease or ridge apparently formed by folding, as of a membrane; a plica.

(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

A fenced enclosure for livestock, especially sheep.

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

A flock of sheep.

A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.

A group of people or institutions bound together by common beliefs and aims.

(dated) A party or festive function.

A religious congregation

(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.

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

The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

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

A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

(intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.

To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.

To fall over; to be crushed.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.

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

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

(intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.

To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

To withdraw from betting.

To oppress or grievously burden.

To withdraw or quit in general.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

To stir gently, with a folding action.

(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.

Of a company, to cease to trade.

To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

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

To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

To confine animals in a fold.

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

An act of folding.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

A bend or crease.

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

Any correct move in origami.

To oppress or burden grievously.

(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.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

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

To subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.

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

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

(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.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

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

Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.

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

Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

A dense crowd of people

(collective) A group of sheep or goats.

Temporary love of an adolescent

(figuratively) Home, family.

The act of crushing

(Christianity) 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.

Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;

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

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

The Earth; earth; land, country.

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

Break into small pieces;

To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.

Humiliate or depress completely;

To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.

Crush or bruise;

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

Make ineffective;

To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.

Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;

To confine in a fold, as sheep.

To confine sheep in a fold.

A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.

Times or repetitions; - used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.

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

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.

A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.

A boundary; a limit.

An angular or rounded shape made by folding;

A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle)

A pen for sheep

The act of folding;

Bend or lay so that one part covers the other;

Intertwine;

Incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating;

Cease to operate or cause to cease operating;

Confine in a fold, like sheep

Become folded or folded up;