Library / English Dictionary

CRINKLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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 ("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)

 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 "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)

Sense 2

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 "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)

Credits