crease
pronunciation
How to pronounce crease in British English:
UK [kri:s]
How to pronounce crease in American English:
US [kris]
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- Noun:
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
- a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
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- Verb:
- make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface
- make wrinkled or creased
- scrape gently
- become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
Word Origin
- crease
- crease: [15] Crease and crest are ultimately the same word. The ridges produced by creasing cloth were regarded as similar to ridges or crests, and so the word crease (often creast in late Middle English) came to be applied to them. The loss of the final -t may have been due to the mistaken analysis of creast or crest as the past form of a verb.=> crest
- crease (n.)
- 1660s, altered from creaste "a ridge," perhaps a variant of crest (n.), via meaning "a fold in a length of cloth" (mid-15c.) which produced a crest. In sports, first in cricket (1779), where it was originally cut into the ground. As a verb, from 1580s. Related: Creased; creasing.
Example
- 1. What you see : you have a deep , vertical crease down the middle of your earlobe .
- 2. Cholesterol is seen in the crease of one 's finger .
- 3. She was careful not to crease her dress .
- 4. I mean , if it 's real , where 's the crease ?
- 5. Such as the number of lost posters and old stains and even above the crease .