folded, ppl. a.
(ˈfəʊldɪd)
[f. fold v. + -ed1.]
In various senses of the vb.; bent, closed, coiled, doubled, twisted.
| 1570 Satir. Poems Reform. xxii. 60 With fauldit neif. 1629 Milton Christ's Nativ. 172 The scaly Horrour of his foulded tail. 1646 Buck Rich. III, ii. 58 Otherwise he might sit downe with folded hands. 1748 Cowper Task i. 331 The folded gates would bar my progress now. 1801 Southey Thalaba iv. v, With folded arms..he sate. 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems II. 150 Folded eyes see brighter colours than the open ever do. 1855 Browning Any Wife viii, The book I opened keeps a folded leaf. |
| fig. 1593 A. Bacon in Bacon's Wks. (1862) VIII. 245 His enigmatical folded writing. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. §12. 56 An implicit and folded duty. 1707 Tate in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii (1849) 337 Untie your folded thoughts, And let them dangle loose as a bride's hair. 1832 Tennyson Dream Fair Women 263 The white dawn's creeping beams..dissolved the mystery Of folded sleep. |
b. Of a mantle: Arranged in folds.
| 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. v, In folded mantles. |
c. folded angle-joint (see quot.); † folded table, ? a table with flaps.
| 1504 Bury Wills (Camden) 101 The hall tabyll and trystells in the hall, parlurrs, and chamburs, except falt tabells. 1554 Ibid. 146 A goblet..and a folted table w{supt} iron. 1874 Knight 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.
| 1613 Chapman Maske Inns of Court Plays 1873 III. 94 A pentacle of siluered stuffe about her shoulders, hanging foldedly downe both before and behind. |
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▸ Molecular Biol. Of a protein or polynucleotide: having a specific three-dimensional structure.
| 1934 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (A.) 232 334 We must think of it as based on parallel polypeptide chains..which are normally in equilibrium in a contracted or folded form. 1963 Proc. 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. 1971 Nature 12 Mar. 102 Incorrectly folded intermediate states could be a general feature of the time course of protein denaturation processes. 1986 Biochemistry 25 2448 It is postulated that the selectivity for copper over zinc arises because of the irregular binding geometry offered by the folded protein. 1994 New 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. |