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Foldup vs Folding - What's the difference?

foldup | folding |

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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foldup

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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 citation
  • , passage=A storage wall supports a desk, two drawers, two shelves, a bookcase, a reading light, a foldup table and the bed frame. }}

    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

    * (commonslite) *