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folded, ppl. a.|ˈfəʊldɪd|
[f. fold v. + -ed1.]
In various senses of the vb.; bent, closed, coiled, doubled, twisted.
1570Satir. Poems Reform. xxii. 60 With fauldit neif. 1629Milton Christ's Nativ. 172 The scaly Horrour of his foulded tail. 1646Buck Rich. III, ii. 58 Otherwise he might sit downe with folded hands. 1748Cowper Task i. 331 The folded gates would bar my progress now. 1801Southey Thalaba iv. v, With folded arms..he sate. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 150 Folded eyes see brighter colours than the open ever do. 1855Browning Any Wife viii, The book I opened keeps a folded leaf.
fig.1593A. Bacon in Bacon's Wks. (1862) VIII. 245 His enigmatical folded writing. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. §12. 56 An implicit and folded duty. 1707Tate in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii (1849) 337 Untie your folded thoughts, And let them dangle loose as a bride's hair. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women 263 The white dawn's creeping beams..dissolved the mystery Of folded sleep.
b. Of a mantle: Arranged in folds.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. v, In folded mantles.
c. folded angle-joint (see quot.); † folded table, ? a table with flaps.
1504Bury Wills (Camden) 101 The hall tabyll and trystells in the hall, parlurrs, and chamburs, except falt tabells. 1554Ibid. 146 A goblet..and a folted table wt iron. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 105/1, h is a riveted joint, one plate being bent to lap upon the other. This joint is called the folded angle.
Hence ˈfoldedly adv., in a folded manner.
1613Chapman Maske Inns of Court Plays 1873 III. 94 A pentacle of siluered stuffe about her shoulders, hanging foldedly downe both before and behind.
▸ Molecular Biol. Of a protein or polynucleotide: having a specific three-dimensional structure.
1934Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (A.) 232334 We must think of it as based on parallel polypeptide chains..which are normally in equilibrium in a contracted or folded form. 1963Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 49 (caption) 750 Zone sedimentation of several molecular forms [of phage lambda DNA]...linear molecules.., folded molecules.., aggregates.., dimers and linear monomers. 1971Nature 12 Mar. 102 Incorrectly folded intermediate states could be a general feature of the time course of protein denaturation processes. 1986Biochemistry 25 2448 It is postulated that the selectivity for copper over zinc arises because of the irregular binding geometry offered by the folded protein. 1994New Scientist 10 Dec. 26/1 Getting proteins to fold properly, and stay folded, outside their normal cell environment is one of the biotechnology industry's most frustrating problems. |