crease

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹiːs/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Etymology 1

From earlier English creast, from 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 area in front of each goal.

   Synonym: goal crease

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

Derived terms

• anticrease
• creaseless
• creaseproof
• creaser
• creasy
• cut crease
• noncrease
• precrease
• simian crease

 

Translations

mark made by folding

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

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

• Czech: rýha (cs) f, vráska (cs) f, záhyb m, přehyb m, ohyb (cs) m, puk (cs) m
• Dutch: plooi (nl), kreukel (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: volt (et), viik (et)
• 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: קפל m (kéfel)
• Hindi: सिलवट (hi) f (silvaṭ)
• Hungarian: él (hu)
• Icelandic: brot (is) n
• Ingrian: poime, poimu
• Italian: piega (it) f, grinza (it) f, cordonatura f
• Japanese: 折り目 (ja) (おりめ, orime)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Polish: fałda (pl) f, zmarszczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ruga (pt) f, dobra (pt) f, vinco (pt) m
• Romanian: cută (ro) 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)
• Ukrainian: скла́дка f (skládka), скла́дина f (skládyna), бга́нка (uk) f (bhánka), збо́рка f (zbórka), змо́ршка f (zmórška)
• Vietnamese: nếp gấp
• Welsh: plygiad m, tolc m or f
• Yiddish: קנייטש m (kneytsh)

one of the white lines drawn on the pitch

• Finnish: rajaviiva
• Maori: wī

lacrosse: circle around the goal

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

ice hockey, handball: goal crease

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

Verb

crease (third-person singular simple present creases, present participle creasing, simple past and past participle creased)

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.

4. (UK, colloquial, intransitive or reflexive) To laugh.

   I can't breathe, I'm creasing so hard.

   He creases at his own joke.

Derived terms

• creasable
• creased
• crease up
• noncreasing
• recrease
• uncrease

 

Translations

to make a crease in

• Belarusian: мяць (mjacʹ)
• Bulgarian: прегъвам (bg) (pregǎvam), измачквам (bg) (izmačkvam), мъ́на (mǎ́na)
• Czech: udělat záhyb, mnout (cs), rýhovat impf
• Finnish: taittaa (fi), laskostaa (fi), rypistää, prässätä (fi)
• German: knittern (de)
• Hungarian: gyűr (hu), ráncol (hu)
• Maori: hākorukoru
• Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak)
• Polish: miąć (pl), bigować (pl) impf (of paper), zbigować pf (of paper)
• Portuguese: enrugar (pt)
• 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

• Czech: mačkat se (cs) impf, zmačkat se pf, pomačkat se pf
• Hungarian: gyűrődik (hu), ráncosodik (hu), ráncolódik (hu)

to graze

• Bulgarian: одрасквам (bg) (odraskvam)
• Finnish: naarmuttaa (fi), raapaista (fi)
• 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.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     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

crease (third-person singular simple present creases, present participle creasing, simple past and past participle creased)

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kreˈase]

Verb

crease

1. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of crea

Spanish

Verb

crease

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of crear