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Folding

//ˈfəʊldɪŋ// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Designed to fold not-comparable

    "a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair"

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being folded up and stored wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The action of folding; a fold. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the act of folding wordnet
  3. 3
    The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock wordnet
  5. 5
    Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape wordnet
  2. 7
    the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Paper money, as opposed to coins. countable, slang, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fold form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

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