Wrinkle vs Kink - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between wrinkle and kink is that wrinkle is a small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface or wrinkle can be (us|dialect) a winkle while kink is a convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying or kink can be a tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. As verbs the difference between wrinkle and kink is that wrinkle is to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles while kink is to laugh loudly or kink can be to form a kink or twist.
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)
Related terms
* unwrinkled
* wrinkle-free
* wrinkly
Etymology 2
Noun
( en noun)
(US, dialect) A winkle.
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kink Etymology 1
From (etyl) kinken, kynken, from (etyl) .
Verb
( en verb)
To laugh loudly.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
Noun
( en noun)
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) or (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks .
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
* Frederic Swartwout Cozzens
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
(slang, countable, and, uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
* 2013 , Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore (page 13)
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink . Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
(Scotland, dialect) A fit of coughing or laughter.
(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the
Verb
( en verb)
To form a kink or twist.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
Derived terms
* kinked
* kinky
* kinkle
* kinkster
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