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Wrinkle vs Bunch - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between wrinkle and bunch

is that wrinkle is to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles while bunch is to gather fabric into folds.

In intransitive terms the difference between wrinkle and bunch

is that wrinkle is to develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age while bunch is to protrude or swell.

wrinkle

Etymology 1

Probably from stem of (etyl) gewrinclod .

Alternative forms

* wrincle (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
  • A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
  • Spending time out in the sun may cause you to develop wrinkles sooner.
  • A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
  • Three months later, we're still discovering new wrinkles .
  • (dated) A notion or fancy; a whim.
  • to have a new wrinkle

    Verb

    (wrinkl)
  • To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
  • Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed
  • To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
  • An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle .
  • (skin) To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
  • The skin is the substance that wrinkles , shows age, stretches, scars and cuts.
  • (obsolete) To sneer (at ).
  • (Marston)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, dialect) A winkle.
  • References

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    bunch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
  • :
  • *
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  • (lb) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  • An informal body of friends.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch —the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  • (lb) A considerable amount.
  • :
  • (lb) An unmentioned amount; a number.
  • :
  • (lb) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  • An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
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  • (lb) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
  • An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
  • :
  • A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxx. 6
  • *:They will carrytheir treasures upon the bunches of camels.
  • Synonyms

    * (group of similar things) cluster, group * (informal body of friends) pack, group, gang, circle * (unusual concentration of ore) ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

    Derived terms

    * buncha (bunch of)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To gather into a bunch.
  • To gather fabric into folds.
  • To form a bunch.
  • To be gathered together in folds
  • To protrude or swell
  • * Woodward
  • Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

    Synonyms

    * (form a bunch) cluster, group

    Derived terms

    * bunch up