Folding vs Fol - What's the difference?
folding | fol |
Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
The action of folding; a fold.
* Addison
* 2007 , Greg Patent, ?Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
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:
In lang=en terms the difference between folding and fol
is that folding is paper money, as opposed to coins while fol is first-order logic.As an adjective folding
is designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.As a noun folding
is the action of folding; a fold.As a verb folding
is present participle of lang=en.As an initialism FOL is
first-order logic.folding
English
(wikipedia folding)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The lower foldings of the vest.
- 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 .