Foldup vs Folding - What's the difference?
foldup | folding |
Capable of being folded up.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 30, author=Wendy Moonan, title=From City to City, 20th-Century Art and Furniture, work=New York Times
, passage=A storage wall supports a desk, two drawers, two shelves, a bookcase, a reading light, a foldup table and the bed frame. }} 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:
As adjectives the difference between foldup and folding
is that foldup is capable of being folded up while 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
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(wikipedia folding)Adjective
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(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 .