Definitions for wrinkle
ˈrɪŋ kəlwrin·kle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, linenoun

   a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

   "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"

2. wrinklenoun

   a minor difficulty

   "they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out"

3. wrinkleverb

   a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

4. purse, wrinkleverb

   gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker

   "purse ones's lips"

5. wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crispverb

   make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in

   "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"

6. furrow, wrinkle, creaseverb

   make wrinkled or creased

   "furrow one's brow"

7. rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkleverb

   become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

   "This fabric won't wrinkle"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. wrinklenoun

   A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.

2. wrinklenoun

   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.

3. wrinklenoun

   A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.

   Three months later, we're still discovering new wrinkles.

4. wrinkleverb

   To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.

   Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive.

5. wrinkleverb

   To pucker or become uneven or irregular.

   An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.

6. Etymology: Probably from stem of gewrinclod.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrinklenoun

   Etymology: wrincle , Saxon; wrinkel, Dutch.

   1. Corrugation or furrow of the skin or the face.

   Give me that glass, and therein will I read:
   No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck
   So many blows upon this face of mine,
   And made no deeper wounds? William Shakespeare, Richard II.

   She hath continued a virgin without any visible token, or least wrinkle of old age. James Howell, Vocal Forest.

   To see a beggar’s brat in riches flow,
   Adds not a wrinkle to my even brow. Dryden.

   Though you and all your senseless tribe,
   Could art, or time, or nature bribe,
   To make you look like beauty’s queen,
   And hold for ever at fifteen;
   No bloom of youth can ever blind
   The cracks and wrinkles of your mind.
   All men of sense will pass your door,
   And croud to Stella’s at fourscore. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Any roughness.

   Our British heav’n was all serene;
   No threatning cloud was nigh,
   Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden.

2. To Wrinkleverb

   Etymology: wrinclian , Saxon.

   1. To corrugate; to contract into furrows.

   It is still fortune’s use
   To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
   To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
   An age of poverty. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   Scorn makes us wrinkle up the nose, and stretch the nostrils also, at the same time drawing up the upper lip. Francis Bacon.

   Here steams ascend,
   That in mixt fumes the wrinkled nose offend. John Gay.

   Here stood ill-nature, like an ancient maid,
   Her wrinkled form in black and white array’d. Alexander Pope.

   2. To make rough or uneven.

   A keen north-wind, blowing dry,
   Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decay’d. John Milton.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrinkle

   A wrinkle, also known as a rhytid, is a fold, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface, such as on skin or fabric. Skin wrinkles typically appear as a result of ageing processes such as glycation, habitual sleeping positions, loss of body mass, sun damage, or temporarily, as the result of prolonged immersion in water. Age wrinkling in the skin is promoted by habitual facial expressions, aging, sun damage, smoking, poor hydration, and various other factors. In humans, it can also be prevented to some degree by avoiding excessive solar exposure and through diet (in particular through consumption of carotenoids, tocopherols and flavonoids, vitamins (A, C, D and E), essential omega-3-fatty acids, certain proteins and lactobacilli).

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wrinkle

   A wrinkle is a small line, fold, or crease in the surface of something, particularly a piece of fabric or the skin of an organism. It is often a result of aging, repetitive movements, long term exposure to water or sun, lack of moisture, or physical stretching and contraction.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrinklenoun

   a winkle

2. Wrinklenoun

   a small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth

3. Wrinklenoun

   hence, any roughness; unevenness

4. Wrinklenoun

   a notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle

5. Wrinkleverb

   to contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow

6. Wrinkleverb

   hence, to make rough or uneven in any way

7. Wrinkleverb

   to shrink into furrows and ridges

8. Etymology: [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. .]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrinkle

   A wrinkle, also known as a rhytide, is a fold, ridge or crease in the skin. Skin wrinkles typically appear as a result of aging processes such as glycation, habitual sleeping positions, loss of body mass, or temporarily, as the result of prolonged immersion in water. Age wrinkling in the skin is promoted by habitual facial expressions, aging, sun damage, smoking, poor hydration, and various other factors.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrinkle

   ring′kl, n. (coll.) a tip, valuable hint. [Perh. from A.S. wrenc, a trick. Cf. Wrench.]

2. Wrinkle

   ring′kl, n. a small ridge on a surface caused by twisting or shrinking: unevenness.—v.t. to contract into wrinkles or furrows: to make rough.—v.i. to shrink into ridges.—adj. Wrink′ly, full of wrinkles: liable to be wrinkled. [M. E. wrinkel, conn. with A.S. wringan, to twist; prob. related to Sw. rynka, Dan. rynke, a wrinkle.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WRINKLE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wrinkle is ranked #25659 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wrinkle surname appeared 961 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wrinkle.
   
   96.5% or 928 total occurrences were White.
   1.3% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.5% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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How to pronounce wrinkle?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wrinkle in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wrinkle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of wrinkle in a Sentence

1. Carly Fiorina:

   This is the face of a 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every single wrinkle.

2. Ruben Abagyan:

   Imagine that when you get depressed, that not just one location on your forehead — which forms this frown wrinkle — but all the muscles get stressed and constricted, then there is a distributed muscle memory. By breaking that memory by basically relaxing all of them, you break the feedback between the head and the muscles in this case.

3. Samuel Ullman:

   Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

4. Reese Witherspoon:

   I see [ fear ] as this little creature that lives in my life all the time, and I can either pay it attention and not get anything done or I can march ahead and ignore it, sometimes I just have to jump two feet into a cold pool and go, ‘ OK, I believe in Reese Witherspoon enough, I know I work hard. I know I can always bet on Reese Witherspoon. Over the past few months, the Wrinkle In Time actress has been vunerable after revealing to the world that she was sexually assaulted by a director while on the set of the film when she was 16 years old.

5. Republican Daron Shaw:

   When you look at the issues and the vote preferences, there is a slight wrinkle in Georgia: Republican primary voters are focused on the economy and immigration, which should benefit candidates from the Trumpwing of the party, and you see this with Walker, but Kemp -- so far -- is holding off Perdue in the gubernatorial contest.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wrinkle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wrinkle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wrinkle
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrinkle
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrinkle
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=wrinkle
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wrinkle
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html