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Definition of Crinkled
1. Adjective. Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves.
Similar to: Uneven
Derivative terms: Crinkle, Waviness
Definition of Crinkled
1. a. Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.
Definition of Crinkled
1. Verb. (past of crinkle) ¹
2. Adjective. Having crinkles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crinkled
1. crinkle [v] - See also: crinkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crinkled
Literary usage of Crinkled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"Mighty ballooning clouds, bearing thunder and crinkled lightning in their folds.
They roll up out of the horizon, tiered, stately. ..."
2. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"... Lou Henry's voice rescued him. '' Real danger I When our men are here!''
she said quickly. "Why it 's absurd!" Her mouth crinkled with mischief. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The mouse homozygous for the autosomal recessive gene crinkled (cr) has several
... crinkled mice also show low liver copper concentrations from Day 18 of ..."
4. Reports of Patent Cases: Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States by Hubert Ashley Banning, Henry Arden (1882)
"The portions of the rollers from between which the crinkled part of the finished
fabric issues are plain, and so are the portions from between which the ..."
5. A Glossary of Silk Terms, Including a Short History of Silk: Its Origin by James Chittick, Cheney Brothers, Emanuel Anthony Posselt, Berlitz school of languages (1915)
"A strongly crinkled fabric, wool, or silk, or mixed wool and silk. ... A light
satin faced crepe having a wrinkled or crinkled face. Cheney Brothers. Reg. ..."
6. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"Price crossed varieties of crinkled-leaf and smooth-leaf cabbage, obtaining
dominance for crinkled leaf in Fi with no segregation of this character in Ft ..."
7. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"Now all the plants presented the crinkled leaves, but there were of course ...
Their progeny bore uniformly crinkled leaves of the most pronounced type, ..."
8. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"Mighty ballooning clouds, bearing thunder and crinkled lightning in their folds.
They roll up out of the horizon, tiered, stately. ..."
9. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"... Lou Henry's voice rescued him. '' Real danger I When our men are here!''
she said quickly. "Why it 's absurd!" Her mouth crinkled with mischief. ..."
10. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The mouse homozygous for the autosomal recessive gene crinkled (cr) has several
... crinkled mice also show low liver copper concentrations from Day 18 of ..."
11. Reports of Patent Cases: Decided in the Circuit Courts of the United States by Hubert Ashley Banning, Henry Arden (1882)
"The portions of the rollers from between which the crinkled part of the finished
fabric issues are plain, and so are the portions from between which the ..."
12. A Glossary of Silk Terms, Including a Short History of Silk: Its Origin by James Chittick, Cheney Brothers, Emanuel Anthony Posselt, Berlitz school of languages (1915)
"A strongly crinkled fabric, wool, or silk, or mixed wool and silk. ... A light
satin faced crepe having a wrinkled or crinkled face. Cheney Brothers. Reg. ..."
13. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"Price crossed varieties of crinkled-leaf and smooth-leaf cabbage, obtaining
dominance for crinkled leaf in Fi with no segregation of this character in Ft ..."
14. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"Now all the plants presented the crinkled leaves, but there were of course ...
Their progeny bore uniformly crinkled leaves of the most pronounced type, ..."
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