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Webster 1913 Edition
Folding
Fold′ing
,Noun.
1.
The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
The lower
foldings
of the vest. Addison.
2.
(Agric.)
The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Folding boat
, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Folding chair
, a chair which may be shut up compactly for carriage or stowage; a camp chair.
– Folding door
, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.
Webster 1828 Edition
Folding
FOLDING
, ppr.1.
Doubling; laying in plaits; keeping in a fold.2.
a. Doubling; that may close over another, or that consists of leaves which may close one over another; as a folding door.FOLDING
, n.1.
A fold; a doubling.2.
Among farmers, the keeping of sheep in inclosures on arable land, &c.Definition 2024
folding
folding
English
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.
- Addison
- The lower foldings of the vest.
- 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.
- Addison
- 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
Verb
folding
- present participle of fold
Derived terms
See also
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folding on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- folding bicycle