different between crease vs folding

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?i?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

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 goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
5. (Jamaican, 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

Translations

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.

Translations

See also

• Hockey rink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

crease (plural creases)

1. Archaic form of kris.

   • 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): [kre?ase]

Verb

crease

1. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of crea

Spanish

Verb

crease

1. First-person singular (yo) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.

   Synonym: creara

2. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) imperfect subjunctive form of crear.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??ld??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fo?ld??/
• Rhymes: -??ld??
• Hyphenation: fold?ing

Adjective

folding (comparative more folding, superlative most folding)

1. Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.

Translations

Noun

folding (plural foldings)

1. The action of folding; a fold.
   • 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey

     Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

2. The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
3. (computing, programming) Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
4. (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
5. (slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 123:

     He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding.

Translations

Verb

folding

1. present participle of fold

Derived terms

• folding stuff

See also

• folding on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• folding bicycle