different between pleat vs plication

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)

1. (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.
2. (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
3. A plait.

Translations

Verb

pleat (third-person singular simple present pleats, present participle pleating, simple past and past participle pleated)

1. (transitive) To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
2. To plait.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• -petal, Patel, Plate, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, plate, platé, tepal

Latin

Verb

pleat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ple?

English

Etymology

From Middle French plicacion, and its source, Latin plicatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl??ke??(?)n/

Noun

plication (countable and uncountable, plural plications)

1. (now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding. [from 15th c.]
2. (now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat. [from 18th c.]
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 96:

     But the recognition of nappes set out the research project: you need not simply throw up your hands in despair at perverse plications and ceaseless crenelations in the Alps.

3. (surgery) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together folds of excess material, and suturing them into place. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• plicature