Corrugate
['kɒrʊgeɪt] or ['kɔrə,get]
Definition
(a.) Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
(v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Wrinkle, cockle, pucker, contract into wrinkles.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Furrow, groove, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, ruffle, crease
ANT:Plane, flatten, roll
Editor: Murdoch
Definition
v.t. to wrinkle or draw into folds.—p.adjs. Corr′ugant; Corr′ugated.—ns. Corrugā′tion the act of wrinkling or being wrinkled: a wrinkle; Corr′ugator (anat.) one of the two muscles that wrinkle the brow.—Corrugated metal metal passed between pairs of rollers with ridged surfaces the ridges of one fitting into the hollows of the other the plates operated on being bent and compressed into the wavy outline of the rolls.
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Examples
- It was a corrugated, unsightly mountain of stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the corrugated ones are more simple. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Another form has vibrating arms or beaters, giving between four hundred and five hundred strokes a minute, and by which the clothes are squeezed between rubbing corrugated boards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To make locks for use with the corrugated keys machines of as great ingenuity as the locks were devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Each of these plates is built up, as shown in detail in Fig. 65, of lead strips corrugated and arranged in layers alternately with flat strips, within perforated leaden cases. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The armature, or moving part of the machine, consists in reality of eight separate armatures all constructed of corrugated sheet iron covered with asbestos and wound with wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pegged rollers were the earliest form for this purpose, and later corrugated rollers and power-worked hammers were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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