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bifold

bifold

5.6
A door or room divider made of two panels that fold together when opened
  • noun
  • /ˈbaɪˌfoʊld/
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  • At the far end of the room, she opened one of the bifold closet doors and brought out a golf club.
  • bifold doors

Examples

  • I pull open the bifold closet doors.

  • At the far end of the room, she opened one of the bifold closet doors and brought out a golf club.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Matt has just opened up all the Bifolds, so now the living space is just all open.

  • And the decking is actually the same level as the house, so even for Jackson, he can easily step outside from the bifold doors and get onto the deck.

  • The bifold doors make it easier to access each side of the closet and create a more unified look in the room.

Synonyms

bi-fold door
vsbifold
3.4

A door with two panels that fold to one side to save space

is a general two-panel partition that folds without a one-side requirement

Surface Forms

bifold singular
bifolds plural

Morphology

bifold = fold (transparent) = bi + fold

The nominal sense refers to an object described by 'bi-' + 'fold' (having two panels), a directly inferable extension from the adjective/verb.

Etymology

Bifold comes from bi- 'two' and fold 'to bend', the same bi- in bicycle. So a bifold door has two panels that bend together when it opens.