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 Definitions for Crease: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Crease \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.
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Creased, like dog's ears in a folio. --Gray.
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Crease \Crease\ (kr[=e]s), n.
See Creese. --Tennyson.
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Crease \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.
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2. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of
the bowler and the striker.
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3. (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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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).
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Creese \Creese\ (kr[=e]s), n. [Malay. kris.]
A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a
serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.]
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From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. --Julian
Hawthorne.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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crease
n 1: 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"
[syn: fold, plication, flexure, crimp, bend]
2: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his
face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
[syn: wrinkle, furrow, crinkle, seam, line]
3: a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade [syn: kris, creese]
v 1: make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress
got wrinkled" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crinkle, scrunch,
scrunch up, crisp]
2: make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow,
wrinkle]
3: scrape gently; "graze the skin" [syn: graze, rake]
4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't
wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crinkle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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87 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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