Family vs. Fold

In human society, family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of families is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society.

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

A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.

To make compact by doubling or bending over parts

The children of one of these groups

To bring from an extended to a closed position

A group of persons related by descent or marriage

To bring from a compact to an extended position; unfold

People in the same line of descent; lineage

To place together and intertwine

(Obsolete) All the members of a household living under one roof.

To envelop or clasp; enfold

A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.

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

A group of like things; a class

(Informal) To discontinue operating; close

A group of individuals derived from a common stock

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

(Biology) A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.

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

(Linguistics) A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.

To become folded.

(Mathematics) A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.

To be capable of being folded

A group of elements with similar chemical properties.

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

A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.

(Games) To withdraw from a game in defeat.

(Physics) Any of the three generations of elementary fermions.

To give in; buckle

Of or having to do with a family

To weaken or collapse from exertion.

Being suitable for a family

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

(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

The act or an instance of folding.

(countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

A part that has been folded over or against another

(countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

A line or mark made by folding; a crease

(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.

A coil or bend, as of rope.

(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

Chiefly British A hill or dale in undulating country.

(uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

(Geology) A bend in a stratum of rock.

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

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

(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.

A fenced enclosure for livestock, especially sheep.

A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.

A flock of sheep.

A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

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

A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

A religious congregation

Suitable for children and adults.

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

(slang) Homosexual.

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

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

(intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.

The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

To fall over; to be crushed.

Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.

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

Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

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

Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

To withdraw from betting.

A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

To withdraw or quit in general.

A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In Zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.

To stir gently, with a folding action.

a social unit living together;

Of a company, to cease to trade.

primary social group; parents and children;

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

people descended from a common ancestor;

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

a collection of things sharing a common attribute;

To confine animals in a fold.

an association of people who share common beliefs or activities;

An act of folding.

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera;

A bend or crease.

a person having kinship with another or others;

Any correct move in origami.

a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

(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.

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

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

(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.

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

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

A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

(collective) A group of sheep or goats.

(figuratively) Home, family.

(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.

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

The Earth; earth; land, country.

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.

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

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

To cover or wrap up; to conceal.

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

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;