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where surrender and origami both begin, depending on the room you're in
means To bend something over on itself so one part lies against another, or to give in and quit — as in a card game or an argument.
from From Old English 'fealdan,' to bend or double over, with deep Germanic roots (compare German 'falten') and a likely cousin in the Latin '-plicare' family that gives us 'ply' and 'fold' words across Europe. The card-game sense — to drop out by laying your cards down — is a much later figurative turn, and the 'sheep fold' meaning of an enclosure is actually a separate Old English word ('falod') that just happens to look the same.
- poker
- the only move that never loses chips outright
- protein origami
- misfolded proteins drive Alzheimer's and mad cow
- paper limit
- folding past seven times defeats most household paper
- geology
- mountain ranges are crust folded over millions of years
- computing
- distributed folding@home once outpaced supercomputers
origami — japanese art form where paper is folded into complex shapes, practiced for centuries
appalachian mountain fold — geological formation in eastern north america created by tectonic plate folding over 300 million years ago