different between terms vs unwrinkle

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

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Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

un- +? wrinkle

Verb

unwrinkle (third-person singular simple present unwrinkles, present participle unwrinkling, simple past and past participle unwrinkled)

1. (transitive) To remove wrinkles from.
   • 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, New York: Vintage, 1957, Part Two, p. 140,^[1]

     He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives.

   • 2000, Gary Soto, Nickel and Dime, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Part 2, p. 85,^[2]

     The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face.

2. (intransitive) To stop being wrinkly; to become flat or smooth.
   • 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone, New York: Ballantine, 1968, Chapter 66, p. 179,^[3]

     His head protruded out of his torn collar much as the head of the tortoise protrudes from its shell, the throat unwrinkling, the eyes like beads, or pips of jet.

   • 1987, Derek Walcott, “Cul de Sac Valley” in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 11,^[4]

     In a rain barrel, water

     unwrinkles to glass;

     a lime tree’s daughter

     there studies her face.

   • 1996, Charles Mathes, The Girl Who Remembered Snow, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Chapter 15, p. 212,^[5]

     Emma went through the closet and removed the black gabardine jacket she had hung up to unwrinkle.

Translations

Synonyms

• (remove wrinkles from): flatten out, smooth