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Folding   /fˈoʊldɪŋ/   Listen
Folding

adjective
1.
Capable of being folded up and stored.  Synonyms: foldable, foldaway.
noun
1.
The process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape.  Synonym: protein folding.
2.
A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock.  Synonym: fold.
3.
The act of folding.  Synonym: fold.


Fold

verb
(past & past part. folded; pres. part. folding)
1.
Bend or lay so that one part covers the other.  Synonyms: fold up, turn up.  "Turn up your collar"
2.
Incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating.
3.
Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.  Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down.  "My business closes every night at 8 P.M." , "Close up the shop"
4.
Confine in a fold, like sheep.  Synonym: pen up.
5.
Become folded or folded up.  Synonym: fold up.



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"Folding" Quotes from Famous Books



... flagged pavement with the nail of his crutch. We passed an iron-studded door which led, he told me, to the crypt of the chapel; and soon after mounted a flight of steps and found ourselves before the great folding doors of the ante-chapel itself, and looked in. Here was daylight again: actual sunlight, falling through six windows high up in the southern wall and resting in bright patches on the stall canopies within. We looked ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... the feminine devotion in the world, but she had hoped to soothe him, perhaps for a little while to make him forget: it had not crossed her mind that her anguish of love and service would be rejected. Enlightenment was like folding a sword ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde
... the blanket he was folding and straightened his back. Hitherto he had no more than glanced at her; but now he scrutinized her carefully, every inch of her, from head to heel and back again, the cut of her garments and the very way she did her hair. And he took his time ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... The farmer thought it a respectable number, and whistled, when the four men at the ropes hauling instantly, the large folding-gates rolled to, and closed in the stillness with the noise of thunder,—the wolves were prisoners. Startled and terrified at finding themselves caught, they at once deserted the small remains of the colt, creeping about in all directions in search of some outlet ...
— Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches • Henri de Crignelle
... Anlitz etc., substitutes for the folding of the earth's crust by tangential pressure the subsidence by gravity of portions of the crust, their falling in obliging the sea to follow. Suess also explains the later transgressions of the sea by the progressive accumulation ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard


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