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Beating vs Folding - What's the difference?

beating | folding |

As nouns the difference between beating and folding

is that beating is action of the verb to beatfolding is the action of folding; a fold.

As verbs the difference between beating and folding

is that beating is present participle of lang=en while folding is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective folding is

designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.

beating

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • action of the verb to beat
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.}}
  • a heavy defeat or setback
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating .}}
  • the pulsation of the heart

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    folding

    English

    (wikipedia folding)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of folding; a fold.
  • * Addison
    • The lower foldings of the vest.
  • * 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.
  • The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
  • (computing, programming) : 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 .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * folding stuff

    See also

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