Folding

Quick meaning: Folding is an adjective meaning Designed to fold.

Meaning

Designed to fold.

More Meanings

1. The action of folding; a fold.
2. The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
3. (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
4. present participle and gerund of fold
5. (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
6. (slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.

Example Sentences

a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair

Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• foldings

Synonyms for folding

Depending on context, synonyms include fold, foldaway, foldable.

Antonyms for folding

Common opposites include non-folding.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foldaway, collapsible, collapsable, shelf, ledge, packing.

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