folding
English
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Folding phones
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
- Hyphenation: fold‧ing
Adjective
folding (comparative more folding, superlative most folding)
- Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
Translations
made to fold
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Noun
folding (plural foldings)
- The action of folding; a fold.
- a. 1719, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, pages 63–64:
- I have ſeen abundance of antique figures in Sculpture and Painting, with juſt the ſame turn in the lower foldings of the Veſt, when the perſon that wears it is in a poſture of tripping forward.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
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- The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
- (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
- (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
- (slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:
- He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:
Translations
action of folding
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Verb
folding
- present participle of fold
Derived terms
- case folding
- code folding
- e-folding
- folding-bone
- folding bone
- folding chair
- folding knife
- folding money
- folding screen
- folding stick
- folding-stick
- folding stuff
- teabag folding
See also
folding on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- folding bicycle