different between pleat vs crimp
pleat
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from a variant of plait, from Old French pleit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pli?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Noun
pleat (plural pleats)
- (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
- (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
- A plait.
Translations
Verb
pleat (third-person singular simple present pleats, present participle pleating, simple past and past participle pleated)
- (transitive) To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
- To plait.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- -petal, Patel, Plate, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, plate, platé, tepal
Latin
Verb
pleat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of ple?
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crimp
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Etymology 1
From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpan? (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ?ecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
Adjective
crimp
- (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Noun
crimp (plural crimps)
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- (obsolete) A card game.
Translations
Verb
crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- 1983, The Pacific Reporter (page 636)
- Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards.
- 1983, The Pacific Reporter (page 636)
- (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- He crimped the wire in place.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
Derived terms
- crimper
- crimping tool
Translations
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.
Noun
crimp (plural crimps)
- An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
- (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Verb
crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)
- (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
References
- crimp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crimp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- crimp at OneLook Dictionary Search
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