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Crease

Crease Meaning & Definition
Crease Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crease?

[n] a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
[n] an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
[v] become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"
[v] scrape gently
[v] make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow"
[v] make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crease: bend | crimp | crinkle | crinkle | crinkle | crisp | crumple | flexure | fold | furrow | furrow | graze | line | plication | rake | ruckle | rumple | scrunch | scrunch up | seam | wrinkle | wrinkle | wrinkle

Related Terms | Find terms related to Crease: autolithograph | be a printmaker | carve | character | chisel | cocker | cockle | corrugate | corrugation | crankle | creasing | cribble | crimp | crimple | crinkle | crisp | crosshatch | crumple | cut | dog-ear | double | double over | doubling | duplicature | enchase | enfold | engrave | flection | flexure | flounce | flute | fold | fold over | frill | furrow | gather | grave | groove | hatch | incise | infold | inscribe | interfold | knit | knot | lap over | lapel | lappet | line | lithograph | make prints | mark | plait | plat | pleat | plica | plicate | plication | plicature | ply | print | pucker | purse | quill | ridge | rimple | ripple | rivel | ruche | ruching | ruck | ruckle | ruff | ruffle | rumple | score | scrape | scratch | sculpture | shirr | stipple | tool | tuck | turn over | twill | wimple | wrinkle

See Also | angular shape | angularity | brush | cockle | crow's feet | crow's foot | crumple | cutis | depression | dermatoglyphic | fold | fold | fold up | fold up | heart line | impression | imprint | kink | knit | laugh line | life line | lifeline | line of destiny | line of fate | line of heart | line of life | line of Saturn | love line | mensal line | plait | pleat | pucker | pucker | ruck | ruck | ruck up | rumple | shave | skin | tegument | turn up | twirl | twist

Crease In Webster's Dictionary

\Crease\ (kr[=e]s), n. See {Creese}. --Tennyson.
\Crease\, n. [Cf. LG. krus, G. krause, crispness, krausen, kr[aum]usen, to crisp, curl, lay on folds; or perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. kriz a wrinkle, crease, kriza to wrinkle, fold, W. crych a wrinkle, crychu to rumple, ripple, crease.] 1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. 2. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. {Bowling crease} (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. {Return crease} (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. {Popping crease} (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. --J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports).
\Crease\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Creased} (kr?st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Creasing}.] To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling. Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. --Gray.
\Crease\, n. (Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also {goal crease}.

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