different between folding vs doubling
folding
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??ld??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fo?ld??/
- Rhymes: -??ld??
- Hyphenation: fold?ing
Adjective
folding (comparative more folding, superlative most folding)
- Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
Translations
Noun
folding (plural foldings)
- The action of folding; a fold.
- 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.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
- The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
- (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
- (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
- (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.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:
Translations
Verb
folding
- present participle of fold
Derived terms
- folding stuff
See also
- folding on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- folding bicycle
folding From the web:
- what folding the american flag means
- what folding means
- what folding bike to buy
- what does folding the american flag mean
doubling
English
Verb
doubling
- present participle of double
Noun
doubling (countable and uncountable, plural doublings)
- The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two. [from 14th c.]
- The act of turning around, or doubling back. [from 16th c.]
- A pleat or fold. [from 17th c.]
- (archaic) A trick; double-dealing.
Synonyms
- (a multiplication by two): See also Thesaurus:duplication
Translations
Anagrams
- blouding
doubling From the web:
- what doubling down in blackjack
- what doubling down means
- what doubling means
- what's doubling in blackjack
- what doubling in literature
- what's doubling money
- what's doubling time in math
- what doubling the odds means
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