Sinking vs Folding - What's the difference?
sinking | folding |
The act or process of sinking.
* 1857 , Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
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 verbs the difference between sinking and folding
is that sinking is while folding is .As nouns the difference between sinking and folding
is that sinking is the act or process of sinking while folding is the action of folding; a fold.As an adjective folding is
designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.sinking
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* like rats from a sinking shipNoun
(en noun)- I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.
- We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district
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 .
