different between crease vs plica

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

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from Latin plicare (“to fold”)

Noun

plica (countable and uncountable, plural plicas or plicae)

1. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
2. Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

3. (botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
4. (zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
5. (music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• icpal

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plica, a derivative of plic? (“I fold”).

Noun

plica f (plural pliche)

1. (anatomy) plica, fold

Derived terms

• plicale

Related terms

• piegare
• plico

Latin

Verb

plic?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of plic?

References

• plica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)