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Bifold

Definition: Bifold

Bifold

Adjective

1. Capable of being folded into two parts, as with doors that are hinged together.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bifold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Note: Bifold \Bi"fold\, adjective. [Prefix bi- fold.]. (Websters 1913)

"Bifold" is a common misspelling or typo for: befoul, befouled, behold, bifid, pinfold.

 

Synonyms within Context: Bifold

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Duplication

Adjective: double; doubled; Verb: bicipital, bicephalous, bidental, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral; bifarious, bifacial; twofold, two-sided; disomatous; duplex; double-faced, double-headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate; second.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Bifold

"Bifold" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bifold" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bifold

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bifold door

239

bifold door installation

4

bifold closet door

63

bifold custom door

4

bifold

24

bifold door louver

4

interior bifold door

21

bifold door opening rough

4

bifold door hardware

16

exterior bifold door

4

bifold door glass

13

bifold hardware

3

french bifold door

10

bifold door track

3

bifold shower door

10

bifold door oak

2

bifold door mirror

8

bifold door pinecroft

2

bifold wallet

8

bifold decorative door

2

bifold hinge

8

bifold door masonite

2

bifold door installing

7

bifold door wooden

2

bifold door install

7

bifold closet custom door

2

bifold door louvered

6

bifold door jeld wen

2

wood bifold door

6

bifold door garage

2

bifold door stanley

5

bifold door manufacturer

2

bifold door hinge

4

bifold door knob

2

bifold closet door mirrored

4

australia bifold door

2

bifold door mirrored

4

bi bifold door fold

2

bifold closet

4

bifold door glass interior

2

bifold door panel

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bifold

Language Translations for "bifold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukranian 

  

подвійний (bigeminal, binary, double, dual, duplex, duplicate, twain, twin, two ply, twofold). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Bifold"

Words rhyming with "bifold" (pronounced 'Bi"fold'): Eightfold, fivefold, Ninefold, Penfold, Pinfold, sheepfold, sixfold, tenfold, threefold, Tweyfold, Twifold, Unblindfold. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bifold

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-f-i-l-o"

-2 letters: boil, bold, diol, fido, filo, foil, fold, idol, lido.

-3 letters: bid, bio, bod, dib, dol, fib, fid, fil, fob, lib, lid, lob, obi, oil, old.

-4 letters: bi, bo, do, id, if, li, lo, od, of.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-f-i-l-o"
 

+2 letters: billfold, bloodfin, forbidal.

 

+3 letters: billfolds, blindfold, bloodfins, forbidals, lifeblood.

 

+4 letters: blindfolds, boldfacing, brownfield, floribunda, formidable, formidably, lifebloods, modifiable.

 

+5 letters: blindfolded, brownfields, dobsonflies, floribundas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bifold


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 66 6F 6C 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    ..-.    ---    .-..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01100110 01101111 01101100 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#102 &#111 &#108 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0066 006F 006C 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367572817870

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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