wrinkle

«wrinkle» in Mova's school dictionary: a small line or fold in skin, cloth or paper — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a wrinkle, wrinkles); verb (wrinkle, wrinkles, wrinkled, wrinkling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A wrinkle is a small line or fold in skin, cloth or paper. tree →

2) To wrinkle is to make or get such lines, as when you wrinkle your nose or a shirt gets creased. tree →

3) Informally, a wrinkle is a small problem or a clever new idea. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, skin gets wrinkles with age; fingers wrinkle in water. In everyday life, ironing removes wrinkles from clothes. In stories, someone wrinkles their nose at a bad smell to show dislike. Phrases: «wrinkle your nose», «iron out the wrinkles», «wrinkled skin».

examples

• Grandma has wrinkles around her eyes when she smiles. tree →
• My fingers wrinkle after a long bath. tree →
• He wrinkled his nose at the smell of the bin. tree →
• Iron the shirt to get rid of the wrinkles. tree →
• The old map was full of wrinkles and folds. tree →
• We still need to iron out a few wrinkles in our plan. tree →
• But every hundred years there came a wrinkle on my face. tree →

note

Countable noun; regular verb: wrinkled, wrinkling (drop the e). The w is silent. Adjective «wrinkly». Wrinkles in skin are normal with age, not a sign of illness.

In the corpora

• There were no wrinkles in it anywhere."
• People are sensitive about how they look: wrinkles, baldness, being short or not pretty, or getting forgetful with age.
• Kind words soften the truth: wrinkles become "laughter lines" and a balding man is "thinning on top".
• "Laughter lines" is a kind name for wrinkles around the eyes and mouth.
• No cream removes all wrinkles in three days; a real breakthrough would be big news, not a pop-up advert.

Trees and pragmatics

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