different between folding vs phaeton

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)

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.
   • 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

Derived terms

• folding stuff

See also

• folding on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• folding bicycle

English

Alternative forms

• phæton

Etymology

Borrowed from French phaéton.

Pronunciation

• (non-merged vowel) IPA^(key): /?fe?.?t?n/
• (merged vowel) IPA^(key): /?fe?.?t?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fe?t?n/

Noun

phaeton (plural phaetons)

1. (vehicles) a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses
2. (automotive) a large open touring motorcar with a folding top

Derived terms

• spider phaeton

Anagrams

• phonate