folding

English

Folding phones

folding (comparative more folding, superlative most folding)

made to fold

Bulgarian: сгъваем (sgǎvaem)
Catalan: plegador, plegable
Chinese:
Mandarin: 可折的 (kě zhé de), 折疊的／折叠的 (zh), 折叠的 (zhédié de)
Finnish: taittuva, taitettava
French: pliant (fr), repliable (fr), rabattable (fr)
German: Klapp-
Japanese: 折り畳 (おりたたみ, oritatami)
Maori: kōpakipaki
Russian: складно́й (ru) (skladnój), раскладно́й (ru) (raskladnój) (esp. of chairs, beds, etc.)
Serbo-Croatian: sklopiv (sh), склопив
Spanish: plegable (es)
Swedish: vikbar (sv), fällbar (sv), ihopvikbar, ihopfällbar

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.
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.

action of folding

Bulgarian: сгъване (bg) n (sgǎvane)
Catalan: plegatge m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 折疊／折叠 (zh), 折叠 (zhédié)
Finnish: taittaminen (fi)
French: pliage (fr) m, plissement (fr)
German: Falten (de) n, Klappen (de) n
Japanese: 畳むこと (ja) (たたむこと, tatamu koto), 折ること (ja) (おること, oru koto)
Russian: скла́дывание (ru) n (skládyvanije), сгиба́ние (ru) n (sgibánije) (bending), свёртывание (ru) n (svjórtyvanije) (of something soft, e.g. cloth)
Swedish: vikning (sv) c

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