Folding and Loose

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Folding adjective - Capable of being folded up and stored.

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Loose and folding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Loose" instead an adjective "Folding".

Nearby Words: fold, folded

Loose adjective - Not tightly fastened, tied, or stretched.

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Folding and loose are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Folding" instead an adjective "Loose".

Nearby Words: loosen, looseness, loosed, loosely

Played for horror in China Miéville's Kraken when Those Two Bad Guys use magical 4-dimensional folding to hide themselves in a small package in order to break into the hero's home, and later to kill the folding expert who taught it to them, giving disturbing new meaning to "tying up loose ends".

Source: Impossibly Compact Folding

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