corrugate

  • 21Corrugated — Corrugate Cor ru*gate ( g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrugated} ( g? t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrugating} ( g? t?ng).] To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or… …

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  • 22Corrugated iron — Corrugate Cor ru*gate ( g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrugated} ( g? t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrugating} ( g? t?ng).] To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or… …

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  • 23Corrugated paper — Corrugate Cor ru*gate ( g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrugated} ( g? t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrugating} ( g? t?ng).] To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or… …

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  • 24Corrugating — Corrugate Cor ru*gate ( g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrugated} ( g? t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrugating} ( g? t?ng).] To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or… …

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  • 25fold — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. bend (see fold); embrace; pleat; flock, congregation. See religion, assemblage. II A bending double Nouns fold, plication, crease, double, bend, lapping, plait; wrinkle, corrugation; flap, lapel,… …

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  • 26corrugated — 1620s, wrinkled (of skin, etc.), pp. adj. from CORRUGATE (Cf. corrugate). Meaning bent into curves or folds (of iron, cardboard, etc., for elasticity and strength) is from 1853 …

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  • 27corrugation — 1520s, from L. *corrugationem, noun of action from pp. stem of corrugare (see CORRUGATE (Cf. corrugate)) …

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  • 28corrugation — noun 1. a ridge on a corrugated surface • Derivationally related forms: ↑corrugate • Hypernyms: ↑ridge 2. the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves • Derivationally related forms: ↑corrugate • …

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  • 29Corrugant — Cor ru*gant (k?r r? gant), a. [L. corrugans, p. pr. See {Corrugate}.] Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30Pucker — Puck er, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Puckered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puckering}.] [From {Poke} a pocket, small bag.] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.… …

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