The Collaborative International Dictionary
Folding \Fold"ing\, n.
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The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
The lower foldings of the vest.
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(Agric.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.Folding chair, a chair which may be shut up compactly for carriage or stowage; a camp chair.
Folding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.
WordNet
n. an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges) [syn: accordion door]
Wikipedia
A folding door is a type of door which opens by folding back in sections. They are usually to be found indoors. Folding doors were already known by the Romans as excavations in Pompeii have revealed.
Folding doors may also be known as accordion doors or accordion partitions. Folding doors are designed to provide quick and easy space division with moderate sound attenuation and a pleasing visual appearance. Accordion doors and partitions provide quick sight and sound division with a simple pull-and-latch operation. Accordion doors and partitions are available as single and paired openings. Curved track allows the partition to move around corners.
Category:Doors
Usage examples of "folding door".
He heard a noise, a desperate tapping on the hard windowplate of the folding door of his high balcony.
A folding door opened, the typewriter held its breath, a hidden force raised me to my feet, the doors closed behind me, a carpet, flowing through the large, luminous room, led me forward until an enormous oak table top supported by steel tubing said to me: now Oskar is standing in front of the boss's desk, I wonder how much he weighs.
Again, therefore, she applied herself to the key, and after moving it in every possible way for some instants with the determined celerity of hope's last effort, the door suddenly yielded to her hand: her heart leaped with exultation at such a victory, and having thrown open each folding door, the second being secured only by bolts of less wonderful construction than the lock, though in that her eye could not discern anything unusual, a double range of small drawers appeared in view, with some larger drawers above and below them.
Off by the folding door, out of range of the TV camera built into the comm set, Vosnesensky sat on the examination stool like a menacing policeman, his arms folded stubbornly across his thick chest.
It has a View through very large Windows to the Vineyards, and from a folding Door to the same from whence the Eye traverses the Gallery.
The driver threw open the folding door with a long lever, and I stepped inside of what could have been a time capsule.
He never looks at them again, just as he never goes in his father's closet with the folding door again, and although he sometimes dreams that there is something under his bed or in his closet, something with flat yellow eyes, he never thinks about that green, sucker-covered hand again until the strange time comes to Thayer School and he bursts into unaccustomed tears in his friend Jack Sawyer's arms.
There was a wheeze and a thump as Richie Boddin, still smiling that crazy smile, worked the chrome lever that shut the folding door.