wrinkle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wrinkle	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for wrinkle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wrinkle n a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" Synonym(s): wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line a minor difficulty; "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out" a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different) v gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips" Synonym(s): purse, wrinkle make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" Synonym(s): wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" Synonym(s): furrow, wrinkle, crease become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" Synonym(s): rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wrinkling}.] 1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. [bd]Sport that wrinkled Care derides.[b8] --Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. --Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton. Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant. {To wrinkle at}, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. [?][?][?][?].] 1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. [bd]The wrinkles in my brows.[b8] --Shak. Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. --Emerson. 2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden. 3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. {Wrench}, n.] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]