Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designed to be folded up for easy storage.
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- adjective That may be
folded away when not in use.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being folded up and stored
Etymologies
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Examples
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It took 860 reports of ladders breaking and 28 injuries before Frontgate recalled foldaway ladders that had been on the market for five years.
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Maybe Tess can help me forget the 20 years I lived in the north-west, where my cultural highlights were collecting the rubber bands the postman left to make into a large, pointless ball, attaching strands of a Ski yoghurt pot to the back wheel of my emerald green foldaway bike so it made a "hddhdhdhdhd" sound as I rode it, and eating a pomegranate very slowly with a drawing pin.
TV Greats: Our Favourites From The North – Grace Dent's TV OD 2011
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Reduce the screen size and make the stand a foldaway clip round the back, and you have a tablet.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Computer renderings for one of three announced finalists -- Karsan, a Turkish company the other two are Ford and Nissan -- show extra foldaway seats and what Karsan is calling a "panoramic glass roof."
Tony Hiss: The Taxi of Tomorrow Tony Hiss 2010
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Computer renderings for one of three announced finalists -- Karsan, a Turkish company the other two are Ford and Nissan -- show extra foldaway seats and what Karsan is calling a "panoramic glass roof."
Tony Hiss: The Taxi of Tomorrow Tony Hiss 2010
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Reduce the screen size and make the stand a foldaway clip round the back, and you have a tablet.
Apple Predictions 2010
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I do love these little foldaway keyboards, and highly recommend them for anyone looking for something similar!
The first sentence I wrote today... ewillett 2008
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A group of soundmen from different stations had started a poker game on a foldaway card table.
Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009
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A group of soundmen from different stations had started a poker game on a foldaway card table.
Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009
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He would wake up from the reclining seat's fake leather embrace, and she would be there, curled up as small as a loaf of bread, on the foldaway table beside him.
from the far edge of a puddle Megan Kurashige 2009
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