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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)

  1. Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.

Translations

Noun

folding (plural foldings)

  1. 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.
  2. The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
  3. (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
  4. (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
  5. (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.

Translations

Verb

folding

  1. present participle of fold

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