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What (who) is Crease - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Creases; Crease (disambiguation)
crease
(creases, creasing, creased)
1.
Creases are lines that are made in cloth or paper when it is crushed or folded.
She stood up, frowning at the creases in her silk dress...
Papa flattened the creases of the map with his broad hands.
N-COUNT: usu pl
2.
If cloth or paper creases or if you crease it, lines form in it when it is crushed or folded.
Most outfits crease a bit when you are travelling...
Liz sat down on the bed, lowering herself carefully so as not to crease her skirt.
= crumple
VERB: V, V n
• creased
His clothes were creased, as if he had slept in them.
ADJ
3.
Creases in someone's skin are lines which form where their skin folds when they move.
When Crevecoeur smiled, the creases in his face deepened.
= wrinkle
N-COUNT
• creased
...Jock's creased drunken face.
ADJ
4.
In cricket, the crease is a line on the playing surface where the batsman stands.
Haynes was still at the crease, unbeaten on 84.
N-SING: the N, poss N
crease
n. to iron out, remove the creases
Crease
·noun ·see Creese.
II. Crease ·vt To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
III. Crease ·noun One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
IV. Crease ·noun A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
V. Crease ·add. ·noun The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there;
- called also goal crease.
Wikipedia
Crease
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
Examples of use of Crease
1. Ganguly, too, left the crease, but soon changed his mind.
2. The chemical can be used, for example, to keep the crease in trousers.
3. The Mumbai right–hander spent 501 minutes – nearly eight and a half hours –– at the crease.
4. Is the novelty hair–doed Kevin Pietersen not perhaps the Tennyson of the crease?
5. "I move less at the crease and look to play straighter.