CRINKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crinkle mean? 

• CRINKLE (noun)
  The noun CRINKLE has 1 sense:

1. a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

  Familiarity information: CRINKLE used as a noun is very rare.

• CRINKLE (verb)
  The verb CRINKLE has 2 senses:

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

2. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

  Familiarity information: CRINKLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRINKLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle

Context example:

ironing gets rid of most wrinkles

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

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

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

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 ("crinkle" is a part of...):

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

Derivation:

crinkle (become wrinkled or crumpled or creased)

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

crinkly (uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves)

• CRINKLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crinkle    ... he / she / it crinkles   
Past simple: crinkled   
Past participle: crinkled   
-ing form: crinkling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

crease the paper like this to make a crane

Hypernyms (to "crinkle" 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 "crinkle"):

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 crinkle the sheets

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

crease; crinkle; crumple; rumple; wrinkle

Context example:

This fabric won't wrinkle

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

fold; fold up (become folded or folded up)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

The sheets didn't crinkle
These fabrics crinkle easily

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

The heat loss causes its interior to shrink, crinkling the surface and creating distinctive features like those identified in the study.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

He crinkled the paper viciously and resumed his reading.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His hair and whiskers were shot with grey, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.

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

His cheeks were red, his brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his temples with passion.

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

His face was thin and brown and crafty, with a perpetual smile upon it, which showed an irregular line of yellow teeth, and his crinkled hands were half closed in a way that is distinctive of sailors.

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