单词 | corrugate |
释义 | corrugateadj. a. Wrinkled; contracted into folds or wrinkles. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [adjective] > wrinkle rivelledlOE frounced1422 rivelling1481 wrinkleda1529 rideled1530 writhled1565 rugged1590 furrow-faced1607 shrivelled1607 corrugated1623 furrow-fronted1640 seamed1656 pursed1676 corrugate1745 crow's-footed1831 crow-footed1834 lined1839 crowed1851 wrinkled1859 1745 E. Young Consolation 69 Extended Views a narrow Mind extend; Push out its corrugate, expansive Make. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 58 458 Howard..with corrugate brow now consigned Parolles to the ‘shelf’. b. spec. in Botany and Zoology. Having a wrinkled appearance; marked with parallel ridges and furrows, usually wavy or curved. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > wrinkle rugose?a1425 rugousc1475 wrinkled1563 rugosous1656 corrugated1666 rugulose1808 corrugate1826 rugulate1899 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xxxviii. 38 The surface frequently appears to be corrugate or plaited. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iv. §2. 133 Corrugate or Crumpled, as the petals of a Poppy, applies to the irregular crumpling of the otherwise plane corolla-leaves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). corrugatev. a. transitive. To wrinkle (the skin), contract into wrinkles; hence gen. to draw, contract, or bend into parallel folds or ridges; to mark with ridges and furrows. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > corrugate [verb (transitive)] corrugate1620 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 96 Salt..exciteth the appetite, by corrugating the mouth of the stomacke. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §964 Cold and Drinesse do (both of them) Contract and Corrugate. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 676 To soften and smooth..the Sinuosities of the stomach..that had by long abstinence been much corrugated. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 95 Whatsoever..acts as a Stimulus, and crisps and corrugates the Fibres. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 208 The haughty forehead of the intrepid princess, was corrugated with agony. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 222 b It [the muscle] corrugates the skin of the nose transversely. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. ii. 50 Tangential thrusts, which corrugate and wrinkle its surface into mountain chains and deep-sea-valleys. b. intransitive (for reflexive) = To become corrugated. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > become corrugated [verb (intransitive)] corrugate1753 1753 N. Torriano in tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat p. xiv Whether the Matter corrugates, or impostumates. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xvi. 122 The elastic material corrugated before the enormous pressure. Derivatives ˈcorrugating n. corrugating machine, a machine for making corrugated iron. ΚΠ 1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1745v.1620 |
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