(n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) To expedite the development of a personal library data base by medical students, we created MEDFILE, a preprinted, cross-indexed file folder system for organizing the medical literature.
(2) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
(3) The Faulkner folder has proved to be optimal, allowing for easy and atraumatic folding and insertion.
(4) Yet to judge by the howls when Apple made the latest album free to download to all of the 800m or so iTunes account holders (by automatically adding it to their “Purchased” folder), there’s nothing the internet hates more than getting music for free.
(5) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
(6) We need to help children in care treasure the objects that tell their life story Read more These books, a cross between photo album, scrapbook and folder, are a statutory requirement for all children going into adoption placements .
(7) This information was then used to design appropriate educational materials, including folders, photographs, flip-charts, and posters.
(8) But Pavlov stressed that it is highly unlikely anyone other than the perpetrator - the person who holds the folder's "passphrase" , or password - will be able to force their way into the encrypted "All7z" folder.
(9) Conversion to A4 folders in the practice provided an opportunity to develop a diagramatic representation of family structure and thus create for each patient a family ;portrait.'
(10) In the runup to the 2001 election campaign he and I spent several anxious hours searching for a mislaid folder containing the entire Labour advertising campaign.
(11) A new concept for filing medical records in general practice is described, based on an A4-size folder; in experimental use in 40 practices doctors were generally in favour of the new system.
(12) Each patient's family is provided with a folder containing detailed information about the patient's current treatment.
(13) Maybe it was back last December, on a trip to Afghanistan, when I saw that the young army officer briefing us had a snapshot of a small boy paper-clipped to his folder.
(14) The ocular lenses were foldable with a forcep (Faulker Folder) and inserted into the eye through a 4 mm incision.
(15) In simple terms, instead of having to create multiple folders to organise documents, users will be able to assign files with multiple tags, which can later be used to search.
(16) But it ended up in the company’s spam folder, so the breach was not discovered until the company was contacted by the Financial Times on Monday, the paper said (£).
(17) These folder variables ranged in nature from quantitative measures of academic performance to demographic information and types of extracurricular activity.
(18) A mysterious encrypted folder released online last week containing a further 220,245 private emails exchanged between climate scientists includes another message from the perpetrator, the Guardian has learned.
(19) She says she keeps the hate mail she's received in an email folder entitled "Do not look", and as a new round has started coming in, she has stuck to this rule.
(20) A procedure for converting the medical record envelopes now used in general practice to an A4-sized record folder is described.
Polder
Definition:
(n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some critics in its former colony are sceptical about the motives of Dutch government-funded consultants and businessmen For the smaller rivers that have already sunk too far to flow out to sea, pumping stations and polders are being built, with reservoirs to hold water at times of heavy rain and flooding.
(2) A collection of adult Culicidae was carried out during the period from May 1984 to September 1985, in a rice field in the polder of the Experimental Station of Pariquera-Açú, in the Ribeira Valley (S. Paulo State, Brazil).
(3) On polder land reclaimed from the Zuiderzee lies Europe's biggest experiment in affordable self-build homes.