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# crease

«crease» in Mova's school dictionary: **a line or fold made in paper, cloth or skin when it is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crease, creases); verb (crease, creases, creased, creasing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crease is a line or fold made in paper, cloth or skin when it is pressed or crumpled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#m1)

2) To crease means to make a fold or line in something, or to become creased. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#m2)

3) In cricket, the crease is the white line where the batter stands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In art, maths and craft lessons, pupils fold paper along a crease to make shapes, origami and lines of symmetry. In everyday life clothes crease and get ironed. Phrases: fold along the crease, a sharp crease, iron out the creases.

### examples

- Fold the paper and press along the crease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x1)
- The crease in the paper shows the line of symmetry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x2)
- My shirt was full of creases after the journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x3)
- Don't crease your homework in your bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x4)
- Dad ironed out the creases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x5)
- The batter stood at the crease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x6)
- When she smiles, little creases appear around her eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x7)
- I am changing, I am losing all my creases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/#x8)

### note

Countable noun; verb: creased, creasing. Do not confuse with increase (to grow bigger) or grease (oil). In maths, folding along a crease can show a line of symmetry, where both halves match exactly.

### In the corpora

- [Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating carpets and pressing creases.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/12-washing-drying-vacuuming-ironing/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crease» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crease/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.