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trifold

trifold

1 3.9
A brochure with three connected parts that bend over each other
  • noun
  • /ˈtraɪfoʊld/
translation icon : tríptico
  • For classroom percussion instruments, have one child stand behind a screen (a trifold poster session cardboard typically used for science fairs works nicely) and select one instrument to play.

Examples

  • In the photo, it was a particularly sunny day and I was writing a rainstorm, so I propped up my trifold board to help me get in the right frame of mind, and it worked!

    Blog text (14)
  • I was like, Carl, we need a trifold brochure for a summer camp.

  • Rather than creating a trifold board to report on a science project, students create a glog.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The unit culminated in presentations in which each pair of students created a trifold board with information on their selected habitat.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The latter is a trifold pamphlet that describes the benefits of quitting smoking during pregnancy and staying quit after the baby is born.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Over the summer, Chirag spent several hours creating a trifold poster, flyers, and other literature for freshman orientation and to display around the school.

    Blog text (15)
  • You know, he brought home a pamphlet, like those little trifold pamphlets that had seals, all little blips of information, not much, but just like this is Navy seals.

  • He'd never worn the titanium trauma plate; he had just used a trifold of Kevlar stuffed down in the trauma pocket over the heart like a lot of agents did, and the impact hurt like a bastard!

    Fiction book (1999)
  • In the middle of September, Laurie brought them to Compassionate Circle, a group she'd discovered in her PR-chick days, when Laurie had done trifolds and newsletters for almost every socially worthy organization in Madison, which was a hotbed of support programs.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The woman clutched the glossy trifold that contained information about the new art exhibit.

Synonyms

leaflet
vstrifold
31 2.7

A small folded sheet with information or advertising

is a specific three-section fold creating six panels rather than any folded sheet

Antonyms

797 1.0

Level and even without parts higher or lower

Surface Forms

trifold singular
trifolds plural

Morphology

trifold = fold (transparent) = tri + fold

The meaning is directly compositional: something folded into three parts.

Etymology

Trifold comes from tri- meaning 'three' and fold meaning 'to bend', and it names a brochure or paper bent into three parts to create six panels. That's why a trifold is the common three-panel brochure you can open and close.