crease

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːs/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Etymology 1

From earlier English creast, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English crest (“ridge, crest”). More at crest.

Noun

crease (plural creases)

1. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.

   His pants had a nice sharp crease.

   His shirt was brand new with visible creases from its store fold.

2. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
3. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
4. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
5. (Jamaica, slang) A crack.
   • 2002, Mark Mylod, Ali G Indahouse, Naomi Campbell as herself:

     (To Ali G): My skin is so dry. So for being a bad boy, I want you to rub oil into me, paying special attention to my breasts and my batty crease.

Synonyms

• (handball: goal crease): zone

Translations

mark made by folding

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ծալք (hy) (calkʻ), փոթ (hy) (pʻotʻ), կնճիռ (hy) (knčiṙ)
• Bulgarian: гънка (bg) f (gǎnka), прегъвка f (pregǎvka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皺／皱 (zh) (zhòu), 皱 (zh) (zhòu), 皺痕／皱痕 (zh) (zhòuhén), 皱痕 (zh) (zhòuhén), 襞 (zh) (bì)

• Czech: rýha f, vráska (cs) f, záhyb m
• Dutch: plooi (nl), kreukel (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: taitos (fi), laskos (fi) (intentional), ryppy (fi) (unintentional), prässi (fi) (in trousers)
• French: pli (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Falte (de) f, Bügelfalte (de) f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: él (hu)
• Icelandic: brot (is) n
• Italian: piega (it) f, grinza (it) f, cordonatura f
• Japanese: 折り目 (おりめ, orime)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pukoru, kurehe, ngene, hākorukoru
• Meru: mukunjo
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: fold m
• Portuguese: ruga (pt) f, dobra (pt) f
• Russian: скла́дка (ru) f (skládka), заги́б (ru) m (zagíb), стре́лка (ru) f (strélka) (on the trousers)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: набор m

  Roman: nabor (sh) m

• Spanish: arruga (es) f, pliegue (es) m, raya (es) f
• Swahili: mkunjo (sw)
• Swedish: veck (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kırışıklık (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: plygiad m
• Yiddish: קנייטש m (kneytsh)

one of the white lines drawn on the pitch

• Finnish: rajaviiva
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

lacrosse: circle around the goal

• Czech: brankoviště (cs) n
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• Finnish: maalivahdin alue

ice hockey, handball: goal crease

• Czech: brankoviště (cs) n
• Finnish: maalialue (official term); maalivahdin alue (informal)
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• Russian: врата́рская площа́дка f (vratárskaja ploščádka)
• Swedish: målområde (sv) n

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
2. (intransitive) To undergo creasing; to form wrinkles.
3. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.

   The bullet just creased his shoulder.

Translations

to make a crease in

• Belarusian: мяць (mjacʹ)
• Bulgarian: прегъвам (bg) (pregǎvam), измачквам (bg) (izmačkvam), мъ̀на (mǎ̀na)
• Czech: udělat záhyb, mnout (cs)
• Finnish: taittaa (fi), laskostaa (fi), rypistää, prässätä (fi)
• Hungarian: gyűr (hu), ráncol (hu)
• Polish: miąć (pl)
• Portuguese: enrugar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: загиба́ть (ru) impf (zagibátʹ), загну́ть (ru) pf (zagnútʹ) (make a crease), мять (ru) impf (mjatʹ), смина́ть (ru) impf (sminátʹ), смять (ru) pf (smjatʹ) (wrinkle), мо́рщить (ru) impf (mórščitʹ), смо́рщить (ru) pf (smórščitʹ)
• Slovak: mäť
• Slovene: meti
• Spanish: arrugar (es)
• Turkish: buruşturmak (tr), kırıştırmak (tr), örselemek (tr)
• Ukrainian: м'яти (mʺjaty)
• Yiddish: קנייטשן (kneytshn)

to undergo creasing; to form wrinkles

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: gyűrődik (hu), ráncosodik, ráncolódik

to graze

• Bulgarian: одрасквам (bg) (odraskvam)
• Finnish: naarmuttaa (fi), raapaista
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• Hungarian: súrol (hu), horzsol (hu)
• Portuguese: roçar (pt)

See also

• Hockey rink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

crease (plural creases)

1. Archaic form of kris.
   • (Can we date this quote by Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     the cursed Malayan crease, and battle-clubs / From the isles of palm

   • 1960, Essex Institute Historical Collections (volume 96, page 128)

     While the crew and some of the natives were taking in the pepper, Samuel Page Pierson noticed that some of the other Malays aboard ship were receiving their creases from the natives in the boat.

Verb

1. Archaic form of kris.
   • 1960, Essex Institute Historical Collections (volume 96, page 128)

     Then a Malay creased Richard Hunt, who escaped for a moment up the ropes.

Anagrams

• Ceaser, Sarcee, recase, searce

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kreˈase]

Verb

crease

1. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of crea

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Spanish

Verb

crease

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.

Synonyms

• creara