crease

«crease» in Mova's school dictionary: a line or fold made in paper, cloth or skin when it is… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a crease, creases); verb (crease, creases, creased, creasing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A crease is a line or fold made in paper, cloth or skin when it is pressed or crumpled. tree →

2) To crease means to make a fold or line in something, or to become creased. tree →

3) In cricket, the crease is the white line where the batter stands. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art, maths and craft lessons, pupils fold paper along a crease to make shapes, origami and lines of symmetry. In everyday life clothes crease and get ironed. Phrases: fold along the crease, a sharp crease, iron out the creases.

examples

• Fold the paper and press along the crease. tree →
• The crease in the paper shows the line of symmetry. tree →
• My shirt was full of creases after the journey. tree →
• Don't crease your homework in your bag. tree →
• Dad ironed out the creases. tree →
• The batter stood at the crease. tree →
• When she smiles, little creases appear around her eyes. tree →
• I am changing, I am losing all my creases. tree →

note

Countable noun; verb: creased, creasing. Do not confuse with increase (to grow bigger) or grease (oil). In maths, folding along a crease can show a line of symmetry, where both halves match exactly.

In the corpora

• Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating carpets and pressing creases.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.