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Crease vs Ruffle - What's the difference?

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Crease is a related term of ruffle.


As verbs the difference between crease and ruffle

is that crease is to make a crease in; to wrinkle while ruffle is .

As a noun crease

is a line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced or crease can be .

crease

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
  • (ice hockey) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue.

    • See also

    * (Hockey rink)

    Verb

    (creas)
  • To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
  • To lightly bloody; to graze.
    • The bullet just creased his shoulder.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * Tennyson
    • the cursed Malayan crease , and battle-clubs / From the isles of palm

    Anagrams

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    ruffle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.(w)
    • ''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
    • to put the mind in a ruffle
  • (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
  • (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .

    • Synonyms

    * (strip of fabric) frill, furbelow

    Verb

    (ruffl)
  • To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
    • Ruffle the end of the cuff.
  • To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
    • The wind ruffled the papers.
    Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
  • * I. Taylor
    • the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
  • * Dryden
    • She smoothed the ruffled seas.
  • * Tennyson
    • But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
  • To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .
  • To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
  • * Dryden
    • On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
  • To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • They would ruffle with jurors.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
  • To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
  • To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
  • * Tennyson
    • [The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
  • (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  • To throw together in a disorderly manner.
  • * Chapman
    • I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.

    Derived terms

    * ruffly