Dictionary — ontologydriven

folding en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/ˈfoʊldɪŋ/ (General-American)
/ˈfəʊldɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
(General-American) audio

Etymology

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

Meanings

(not-comparable) Designed to fold
- a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair

Antonyms

non-folding

Translations (22)

es plegable (made to fold) · de Klapp- (made to fold) · fr pliant (made to fold) · fi taitettava (made to fold) · fr rabattable (made to fold) · sv vikbar (made to fold) · sv ihopfällbar (made to fold) · ca plegable (made to fold) · ru раскладно́й (made to fold) · fr repliable (made to fold) · sv fällbar (made to fold) · cmn 折疊的 /折叠的 (made to fold) · ru складно́й (made to fold) · sh sklopiv (made to fold) · ca plegador (made to fold) · bg сгъваем (made to fold) · sv ihopvikbar (made to fold) · cmn 可折的 (made to fold) · mi kōpakipaki (made to fold) · sh склопив (made to fold) · fi taittuva (made to fold) · ja 折り畳 (made to fold)

folding en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈfoʊldɪŋ/ (General-American)
/ˈfəʊldɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
(General-American) audio

Etymology

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

Meanings

(countable, uncountable) The action of folding; a fold.
- 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. a. 1719, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, pages 63–64:
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft. 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:
(countable, uncountable) The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
(countable, uncountable) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
(countable, uncountable) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
(countable, slang, uncountable) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
- 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, published 2010, page 123:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
foldings	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (15)

de Klappen (action of folding) · sv vikning (action of folding) · ko 접기 (action of folding) · bg сгъване (action of folding) · ja 折ること (action of folding) · fr pliage (action of folding) · ca plegatge (action of folding) · ru свёртывание (action of folding) · de Falten (action of folding) · ja 畳むこと (action of folding) · cmn 折疊 /折叠 (action of folding) · fi taittaminen (action of folding) · ru сгиба́ние (action of folding) · ru скла́дывание (action of folding) · fr plissement (action of folding)

folding en · VERB

Pronunciation

/ˈfoʊldɪŋ/ (General-American)
/ˈfəʊldɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
(General-American) audio

Etymology

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

Meanings

(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of fold
form of fold

Deriveds

paperfolding · microfolding · downfolding · wavefolding · antifolding · folding money · e-folding · folding knife · folding table · folding screen · code folding · bifolding · superfolding · malfolding · folding rooftop · case folding · cofolding · folding chair · folding bone · folding-bone · folding stuff · postfolding · non-folding · teabag folding · folding stick · folding-stick

Relateds

folding bicycle