Crossword clues for crease
crease
- Fabric fold
- Iron target
- Goalie's place
- Pants fold
- Clothing fold
- Hockey rink area
- Area in front of a hockey goal
- Pressing issue?
- Pressed-pants feature
- Trouser-leg line
- Trouser leg feature
- Photo flaw
- Pant leg feature
- Palm line
- Origami step
- Iron's target
- Iron production?
- Iron product
- Folding line
- Feature of new bedsheets
- Area in a hockey rink
- Trouser-leg feature
- Trouser leg line
- Trouser edge
- Thing to put in your pants
- The puck's stopped here, often
- Rink area
- Result of steam-pressing
- Result of a pressing
- Pressing goal
- Pressing concern
- Pleat feature
- Paper fold
- Pants-pressing concern
- Pants-leg feature
- Pants pressing line
- Pants pleat, for example
- Origami ridge
- Make a fold in
- Line pressed by an iron
- Line made by folding
- Laugh line, e.g
- Ironing concern
- Goalie's locale
- Goalie's concern
- Folder's creation
- Fold or wrinkle
- Area in front of an ice hockey goal
- Area around hockey goal
- Pants line
- Fold, as paper
- Wrinkle
- Goalie's spot
- Goalie's area in lacrosse
- Dogear mark
- Result of ironing
- Laugh line, e.g.
- Pants leg feature
- Line of clothing?
- Hockey area
- Trousers feature
- Ironing line
- Hockey goalie's area
- Origami feature
- Lacrosse goalie's area
- An angular shape made by folding
- A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
- See 39-Down
- Graze with a bullet
- Goalie's domain
- Area near a goalie's cage
- Lacrosse field section
- Hat feature
- Goalie's turf
- Damage to a photograph
- Trouser feature
- Area in front of a goalie
- Area around a goalie
- Pleat on a pair of pants
- Cricket pitch marking
- Credit facility line
- Wrinkle, furrow
- Stop outside right line for one on 26
- Stop claiming runs where batsman stands
- Folded line
- Fold your attire finally into case
- Fold note in suit
- Fold mark
- Fold back electronic snail mail reply facilitator
- Finish getting runs in place for batsman
- American Indian conceals a singular wrinkle
- Line on a cricket pitch
- Ironed fold
- Tuck sides of robe into luggage
- Tuck, the musical, gets a new lead
- Fedora feature
- Clothes line
- Clothes line?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, altered from creaste "a ridge," perhaps a variant of crest (n.), via meaning "a fold in a length of cloth" (mid-15c.) which produced a crest. In sports, first in cricket (1779), where it was originally cut into the ground. As a verb, from 1580s. Related: Creased; creasing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A line or mark made by folding or double any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced. 2 (context cricket English) 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 (context lacrosse English) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go. 4 (context ice hockey English) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make a crease in; to wrinkle. 2 (context transitive English) To lightly bloody; to graze. Etymology 2
n. (archaic form of kris English)
WordNet
n. an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: fold, plication, flexure, crimp, bend]
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crinkle, seam, line]
v. make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp]
make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: furrow, wrinkle]
become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crinkle]
Wikipedia
Crease may refer to:
- A line (geometry) or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance
- Crease (band), American hard rock band that formed in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1994
- Crease pattern, origami diagram type that consists of all or most of the creases in the final model
- Crease Range, mountain range in northernwestern British Columbia, Canada
- Skin crease, areas of skin where it folds
In the sport of cricket, the crease is a certain area demarcated by white lines painted or chalked on the field of play, and pursuant to the rules of cricket they help determine legal play in different ways for the fielding and batting side. They define the area within which the batsmen and bowlers operate. The term crease may refer to any of the lines themselves, particularly the popping crease, or to the region that they demark. Law 9 of the Laws of Cricket governs the size and position of the crease markings, and defines the actual line as the back edge of the width of the marked line on the grass, i.e., the edge nearest to the wicket at that end.
Four creases (one popping crease, one bowling crease, and two return creases) are drawn at each end of the pitch, around the two sets of stumps. The batsmen generally play in and run between the areas defined by the creases at each end of the pitch. The bowling creases lie 22 yards (66 feet or 20.12 m) away, and marks the other end of the pitch. For the fielding side, the crease defines whether there is a no ball because a fielder has encroached on the pitch or the wicket-keeper has moved in front of the wicket before they are permitted to do so. In addition, historically part of the bowler's back foot in the delivery stride was required to fall behind the bowling crease to avoid a delivery being a no ball. This rule was replaced by a requirement that part of the bowler's front foot in the delivery stride must fall behind the popping crease (see below).
Crease is an American hard rock band that formed in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1994.
Three quarters of the band (Kelly Meister and brothers Fritz & Eric Dorigo) originally came from the Alt-Thrash band XSF (Excessive), which formed late in 1985. When their bass player quit the band to get married, friend of the band, Greg Gershengorn was brought in to replace him. Once a few shows that were previously booked as Excessive were completed, the band changed their name to Crease and started writing all new material. The band recorded a full-length studio album, Interference, on a local indie label in 1995. But it wasn’t until the self-financed/self released album ...Six Pack Shy Of Pretty was released in 1998, that the group found success. Their major label release, Vindication and Indie release Only Human, would follow.
Crease is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Henry Pering Pellew Crease (1823–1905), British lawyer, judge, and politician
- Jimmy Crease (born 1949), former association football player
- Kevin Crease (1936–2007), South Australian television presenter and newsreader
- Robert P. Crease (born 1953), American philosopher and historian of science
Usage examples of "crease".
As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.
The ruined hat was replaced with a new confection from the bandbox, and the gown with a fresh one, only barely creased.
The skin was broken nowhere, but here and there, particularly at sensitive places near the shadowy crease which separated the globes one could see dark splotches and stigmata as evidences that the birching had been rather severe.
He posed against a ceiba tree, his camouflage fatigues starched and creased, his jump wings flashing on his chest, an Uzi machine pistol slung casually over his right shoulder.
The wild white hair was carefully combed, the deeper creases in his face were caulked, and his black skin lightened somewhat with a brown powder.
He folded the paper over to the races at Tampa Downs and creased it sharply.
A furrow creased her forehead, but she gave her head a shake and the frown disappeared.
From the exchange, she had expected someone younger than Setalle Anan, but Reanne had hair more gray than not and a face full of what might have been smile lines, though they were creased in worry now.
She saw lines and planes so strong that she was reminded of a stone sculpture, straight dark brows over hazel eyes, and a high forehead creased in-pain?
Curiosity appeared in short order, her smooth brown face creased with surprise and considerable irritation.
She slept with her mouth slightly open, and her brow creased in concentration, as if this were another task set before her to prove her worth.
Curiosity came forward with her skirts snapping around her ankles, both hands outstretched and her face creased in a broad smile.
He was a smallish man, not much taller than themselves, with a strong-featured face creased by humour at the eyes and mouth, though with no sign of a smile now.
But his head turned again to Bran, as if by compulsion, back to the pale vulnerable figure standing there holding the sword Eirias, his white hair sleek in the mist and the tawny eyes creased a little against the light.
Chingachgook spoke up, his face creasing into a smile so thoroughly wrinkled that his eyes disappeared.