What's the difference between enfold and fold?

Enfold


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To infold. See Infold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Transmission electron microscopy disclosed M cells enfolding many immature or mature lymphocytes and plasmocytes.
  • (2) These neurons had perikarya 10-25 microns in diameter with moderately developed cell organelles and enfolded nuclei that were often distributed eccentrically placed in the cell.
  • (3) The kind of total darkness that enfolds the Welsh seaside town of "Llareggub" at the opening of Dylan Thomas's wonderful mid-century "play for voices" , which interweaves the thoughts and words of upwards of 60 characters over one day, is lost to the modern world.
  • (4) We found on serial sections that the plasmalemmal extensions were dendritic complexes enfolding the membrane of the subplasmalemmal vacuole and extending to contact host tissue.
  • (5) The N-terminal domain (beta) of residues 1-29 enfolds a three-metal cluster of 1 Cd and 2 Zn coordinated by six terminal cysteine thiolate ligands and three bridging cysteine thiolates.
  • (6) Examinations of the dissected gastrulae suggested two cooperative forces for the gastrulation: first, the epibolic or enfolding movement of the ventral ectoderm cells and secondly, the change in shape of the constituent cells.
  • (7) The epithelial basement membranes become irregular and thicker than normal, enfolding the basal part of the epithelial cells.
  • (8) In most other nerves each fiber is separated from all others by an enfolding Schwann cell, but in the olfactory nerve the fibers are directly in contact with one another in groups of several hundred fibers.
  • (9) Spirally arranged bundles of sub-endothelial smooth muscle enfold the small to medium-sized submucosal veins in the equine ileocecal junction.
  • (10) When spinal column was extended, annulus fibrosus of disk and ligamentum flavum would enfold into the spinal canal and only a slight force would do severe on the cord.
  • (11) The bacteria were also seen in macrophages enfolded by the M cells as well as in macrophages below the FAE.
  • (12) M cells had short, sparse microvilli, many vesicles, few lysosomal structures, and they enfolded groups of mononuclear leucocytes.
  • (13) The C-terminal domain (alpha) of residues 30-61 enfolds a 4Cd cluster coordinated by six terminal and five bridging cysteine thiolates.
  • (14) There's a lot of safety and positivity in being enfolded by a community.
  • (15) He is watching with pleasure as the tech boom enfolds San Francisco.
  • (16) No sense of perspective on the real seriousness of this tragedy enfolding me?
  • (17) Additional histological effects of estradiol, including endometrial enfolding observed in controls, were not present in Hertwig's anemia mice.
  • (18) M cells with enfolded lymphocytes consisted of the stumpy type and the slim type in the whole shape.
  • (19) In the striated ducts, basal enfoldings became also irregular and short, while the mitochondria (which were a slender rod shape and arranged parallel to the basal enfoldings in control rats) became swollen, developed a dark matrix, a decrease in the cristae, and showed random arrangement.
  • (20) The amino terminal domain (beta) of residues 1 to 29 enfolds a three-metal cluster of one Cd and two Zn atoms coordinated by six terminal cysteine thiolate ligands and three bridging cysteine thiolates.

Fold


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
  • (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
  • (v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
  • (v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
  • (v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
  • (v.) 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.
  • (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
  • (n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
  • (n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
  • (n.) A boundary; a limit.
  • (v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
  • (v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (3) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (4) The enzyme was solubilized by Triton X-100 and purified approximately 480-fold by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on alanine methyl ketone-AH-Sepharose 4B.
  • (5) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
  • (6) IP3 increased 1.7-fold and IP2 1.6-fold after 20 and 40 s, respectively.
  • (7) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (8) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (9) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
  • (10) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
  • (11) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
  • (12) Transfection of the treated DNA into SOS-induced spheroplasts results in an increase in mutagenesis as great as 50-fold.
  • (13) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (14) In strains completely deleted for galR, the gene which encodes the Gal repressor, the operon is derepressed by only 10-fold without an inducer.
  • (15) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (16) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
  • (17) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
  • (18) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (19) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
  • (20) The gene, which is located at chromosome XIII, is transcribed as a mRNA of about 2.7 kilobases, and the amount of message has been found to increase 3- to 4-fold during the culture.