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CREASE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade

Synonyms:

crease; creese; kris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("crease" is a kind of...):

dagger; sticker (a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

Example:

ironing gets rid of most wrinkles

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("crease" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crease"):

crow's feet; crow's foot; laugh line (a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes)

dermatoglyphic (the lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet))

frown line (a facial wrinkle associated with frowning)

life line; lifeline; line of life (a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live)

heart line; line of heart; love line; mensal line (a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature)

line of destiny; line of fate; line of Saturn (a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be)

Holonyms ("crease" is a part of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Derivation:

crease (become wrinkled or crumpled or creased)

crease (make wrinkled or creased)

crease (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An angular or rounded shape made by folding

Example:

a bend of his elbow

Synonyms:

bend; crease; crimp; flexure; fold; plication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("crease" is a kind of...):

angular shape; angularity (a shape having one or more sharp angles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crease"):

plait; pleat (any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape)

kink; twirl; twist (a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight)

pucker; ruck (an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

Example:

This fabric won't wrinkle

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; crumple; rumple; wrinkle

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "crease" is one way to...):

fold; fold up (become folded or folded up)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

The sheets didn't crease

These fabrics crease easily

Derivation:

crease (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Scrape gently

Example:

graze the skin

Synonyms:

crease; graze; rake

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "crease" is one way to...):

brush (touch lightly and briefly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crease"):

shave (touch the surface of lightly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make wrinkled or creased

Example:

furrow one's brow

Synonyms:

crease; furrow; wrinkle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "crease" is one way to...):

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

crease (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic

Example:

crease the paper like this to make a crane

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "crease" is one way to...):

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crease"):

cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple (to gather something into small wrinkles or folds)

pucker; ruck; ruck up (become wrinkled or drawn together)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They crease the sheets

Derivation:

crease (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A crease in the skin of the lower eyelid.

(Inferior Palpebral Fold, NCI Thesaurus)

I never saw his mouth so wide, or the creases in his cheeks so deep, as when he delivered himself of these sentiments: shaking his head all the time, and writhing modestly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The country detective was a stout, puffy, red man, whose face was only redeemed from grossness by two extraordinarily bright eyes, almost hidden behind the heavy creases of cheek and brow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Running up, I blew its brains out, and it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great creases of his neck.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These included oily areas (such as the side of the nose, inside the ear, and upper chest); moist areas (typically skin folds or creases such as the inner elbow, space between fingers, and behind the knee); dry, flat surfaces (such as the inside of the forearm and palm of the hand); and the feet (toenail, heel, and between the toes).

(Skin microbes fairly stable over time, NIH)

Abnormalities are variable from individual to individual and may include mental retardation, retarded growth, flat hypoplastic face with short nose, prominent epicanthic skin folds, small low-set ears with prominent antihelix, fissured and thickened tongue, laxness of joint ligaments, pelvic dysplasia, broad hands and feet, stubby fingers, transverse palmar crease, lenticular opacities and heart disease.

(Down Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Some of the most common body parts people want to improve through surgery include: • Breasts: Increase or reduce the size of breasts or reshape sagging breasts • Ears: Reduce the size of large ears or set protruding ears back closer to the head • Eyes: Correct drooping upper eyelids or remove puffy bags below the eyes • Face: Remove facial wrinkles, creases or acne scars • Hair: Fill in balding areas with one's own hair • Nose: Change the shape of the nose • Tummy: Flatten the abdomen

(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)

However, single palmar creases can be associated with Down's syndrome and other genetic disorders, or with fetal alcohol syndrome.

(Palmar Crease Examination, NCI Thesaurus)

Another stride was in the direction of creased trousers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)