wrinkle
A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surfaceA small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
» Your shirt is wrinkled.
У тебя рубашка помята.
У тебя рубашка мятая.
У Вас рубашка мятая.
Твоя сорочка пом'ята.
Meaning
5 sensesA small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
Falte
скла́дкаskládka
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.
Falte, Runzel
морщи́наmorščína
змо́ршкаzmórška
A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
We need to iron out the wrinkles in the plan before implementing it.
Problem
(informal)A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
We've added a couple of new wrinkles to the policy.
(US, dialectal)A winkle
- a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
- a minor difficulty
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
Examples
87 sentencesYour shirt is wrinkled.
Твоя сорочка пом'ята.
ruУ тебя рубашка помята.
Your shirt is pretty wrinkled.
Твоя сорочка доволі зім'ята.
You've got wrinkles.
У вас є зморшки.
ruУ тебя морщины.
Tom was wearing a wrinkled shirt.
The shirt you're wearing is really wrinkled.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English wrinkle, wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the verb (see below).From Middle English wrinkle, wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the verb (see below). Cognate with Dutch wrinkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Compare also Middle English runkel (“wrinkle”), from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle, crease”), whence also French fronce (“crooked smile, scowl, frown”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Danish rynke (“wrinkle”), Swedish rynka and rynkla (“wrinkle”).
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