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Definition: Crinkled |
CrinkledAdjective1. Having wrinkles or waves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crinkled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: CrinkledSynonyms: crinkly (adj), rippled (adj), wavelike (adj), wavy (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: crinkled hairgrass (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), crinkled paper (european union, industry), crinkled patent (industry), crinkled sheets (european union, metallurgy), crinkled spring washer (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology), crushed patent (industry), wavy hairgrass (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Adjective: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated; oblique. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crinkled |
| English words defined with "crinkled": Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet ♦ Canton crepe, crape, crepe, crepe paper ♦ Languas speciosa ♦ savoy cabbage, shell ginger, shellflower. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And when the smell of the cooking stew came to their noses, their noses crinkled slightly. |
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| "Crinkled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 55.26% of the time. "Crinkled" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 55.26% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.21% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 10.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crinkled": crinkled patent. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crinkled": varnish-crinkled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cap crinkled mob | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crinkled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 卷曲 (Crimp, Crinkling, Curled, Curling, Curly, frizz, Frizzed, Frizzes, Frizzing, frizzy). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | knitterte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | gyűrött (creased, crinkly, crumpled, rumpled). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkledcray гофрированная бумага (crepe paper, crinkled paper). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aira flexuosa L., Deschampsia flexuosa Trin.. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Crinkled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crankley, Crinkley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: clinked, clinker, crinkle, kindler, nickled. | |
-2 letters: cinder, clerid, dicker, kilned, kinder, kindle, kirned, licked, licker, linked, linker, nicked, nickel, nicker, nickle, relink, ricked. | |
-3 letters: cider, clerk, cline, clink, cried, dicer, diker, diner, dreck, drink, icker, idler, inked, inker, inkle, irked, liked, liken, liker, lined, liner, nicer, reink, relic, riced, riled. | |
-4 letters: cedi, ceil, cine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: clinkered. | |
+3 letters: cinderblock, interlocked, trickledown. | |
+4 letters: cinderblocks, stickhandler. | |
+5 letters: stickhandlers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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