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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
corrugated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
iron
▪ Their planking was patched with corrugated iron, their roofs shingled with flattened tin cans.
▪ From then on, Stafford Road was flanked by a long black corrugated iron fence.
▪ Instead I was directed to a three-roomed brick house with corrugated iron roofing.
▪ Refurbished on a budget of £20, the shop is kitted out with old tyres, corrugated iron and scaffolding.
▪ A ground party was immediately organised to manhandle the aircraft on to sheets of corrugated iron positioned on the tarmac.
▪ I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here.
▪ The mill still stands and is a curious mixture of brick, elm, slate and corrugated iron.
▪ Instead, they are either covered with a corrugated iron roof or are in the street.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a shack with a corrugated metal roof
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here.
▪ It looked like a condemned storefront, planks of wood everywhere, but through the corrugated tin door was a party.
▪ Many species have a finely folded margin, crumpled like corrugated cardboard.
▪ On the corrugated pewter there floated two boats.
▪ She saw again the severed vessels, sticking like corrugated pipes through the clotted blood.
▪ The local army base, a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower, is pressed right up against a primary school.
▪ The simplest substitute is corrugated cardboard.
▪ The walls were unbaked bricks, the roof corrugated sheets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
corrugated

corrugated \corrugated\ adj. shaped into parallel folds alternately grooved and ridged; as, the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corrugated

1620s, "wrinkled" (of skin, etc.), past participle adjective from corrugate. Meaning "bent into curves or folds" (of iron, cardboard, etc., for elasticity and strength) is from 1853.

Wiktionary
corrugated
  1. 1 Marked with parallel folds, ridges or furrows. 2 bent into regular curved folds or grooves. v

  2. (en-past of: corrugate)

WordNet
corrugated

adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"

Wikipedia
Corrugated

The term corrugated, describing a series of parallel ridges and furrows, may refer to the following:

  • Corrugated fiberboard also called corrugated cardboard
  • Corrugated frog, a species of frog in the Dicroglossidae family
  • Corrugated galvanised iron, a building material composed of sheets of cold-rolled hot-dip galvanised mild steel
  • Corrugated plastic, a wide range of extruded twinwall plastic-sheet products produced from high-impact polypropylene resin
  • Corrugated road, a form of damage prone to develop in the surface of unpaved roads.

Usage examples of "corrugated".

The stun bunny left her with a persistent nosebleed and an eternal throbbing headache, and every time the van hit a chuckhole, her head bounced on the Corrugated steel floor.

Major - de Coverley swept it away with mighty displeasure the moment he recognized what it was, his good eye flaring up blindingly with fiery disdain and his enormous old corrugated face darkening in mountainous wrath.

A long wooden room with thick rafters holding up the corrugated carbon-sheet roof, a counter running its length, dull neon adverts for extinct brands of beers and ice creams on the wall behind.

The Customs shed was corrugated iron, manned by three bored workers in grimy white canvass jackets, supervised by a clerk who wore a blue guayabera shirt with CoDominium badges sewed to the epaulettes.

Along with the rest of the aircrew, he got out of the Lanc in a hurry and sprinted across the tarmacnow blacked out againfor the Nissen hut whose corrugated metal walls were surrounded by sandbags to protect against blast.

On the lakefront was a bar nailed together from unpainted scrap wood and corrugated tin.

He led the way through a reptilious swamp and into the fringe of a nispero forest, where they came upon a hut with a roof of corrugated iron and walls of wattled bamboo.

In the outlines of stillborn streets shacks of concrete and corrugated iron blistered overnight.

The masks had two round eyepieces that combined with the long, snoutlike corrugated rubber breathing tube to give the wearers an unhuman appearance.

I turned to Yuki now as she spoke, her voice choppy with agitation, her face corrugated with worry.

They rocked along in a jangle of light past appliance shops with Aztec temples painted on their facades, bodegas clubs souvenir shops, their bright windows aglitter with crystal crosses gilt madonnas rhinestone eagle knives flashing in miles of red midnight, little stucco caves with corrugated iron doors rolled partway down, interiors littered with every form of cheapness: mirrors with ornate tin frames, torrero capes with airbrushed scenes from the Plaza del Toros, sombreros festooned with embroidery and bits of broken mirror, switchblades with dragons worked in gold paint you could scrape off with your thumbnail.

Corrugated breathing tubes led back to lightweight recalculating gear carried like a hump on the back.

There was another door in the second room, and a corrugated rollup door for truck deliveries.

Liberator droned north and west across the Bay of Biscay, above the corrugated mat of cloud, towards the Coastal Command base at St-Just.

Outside the gate fifty-gallon oil drums had been cut in half and set up for grilling, covered with everything from what looked like braided coat hangers to corrugated iron, piled high with shrimp, snapper, chorizo, mounds of green onions, peppers, mystery meats.