Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
- noun A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
- noun A different or unexpected development, action, or idea.
- noun A problem or imperfection.
- intransitive verb To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
- intransitive verb To draw up into wrinkles; pucker.
- intransitive verb To form wrinkles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slight ridge in or raised line on a surface caused by contraction, folding, puckering, or rumpling; a line of corrugation, generally one of a series, either regularly or irregularly disposed; a crease: as, wrinkles in a garment, or in an old man's face; wrinkles (small corrugations) in a rock.
- To form wrinkles in: contract, fold, or pucker into small ridges and furrows or creases; corrugate; crease.
- To become contracted into wrinkles; shrink into furrows and ridges; be marked with wrinkles.
- noun A short pithy piece of information or advice; a valuable hint; a bit of useful knowledge or instruction; a good idea; a trick; a point; a notion; a device.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U. S. A winkle.
- intransitive verb To shrink into furrows and ridges.
- noun A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold
- noun hence, any roughness; unevenness.
- noun colloq. A notion or fancy; a whim.
- transitive verb To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate.
- transitive verb Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
- transitive verb [Obs.] to sneer at.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
furrow ,ridge orcrease in anotherwise smooth surface . - noun A
line or crease in theskin , especially when caused byage orfatigue . - noun A
fault ,imperfection orbug especially in a newsystem orproduct ; typically, they will need to beironed out . - verb transitive To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
- verb intransitive To
pucker or becomeuneven orirregular .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- noun a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
- verb make wrinkled or creased
- noun a minor difficulty
- verb make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
- verb gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker
- noun a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One extra wrinkle is that some loan officers are good at teasing out the details of a borrower's credit history and finding those that have bad pasts but good futures.
Subprime Mortgage Loans, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Another wrinkle is that a large first class economic city is a big draw for ambitious folks, even if the average economic situation of a UKer were weaker than the average situation of a Dane (I'm not claiming it is).
The Immigration Indicator, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The wrinkle is that airlines are now required to have contingency plans on file for how they will deal with long tarmac delays at large and medium hub airports.
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People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
A real American : I received this in an e-mail, tell me what you think. 2009
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The only wrinkle is that the House proposes to do this pursuant to a “rule” whereby a single vote will determine the passage of both X andY.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “It May Be Clever, but It Is Not Constitutional” 2010
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One wrinkle is that agencies often don't own up to the costs of their rules, so REINS should also hold for rules that a member designates as particularly controversial, not just "major" ones.
It's Time To Regulate The State Wayne Crews 2010
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The one wrinkle is that, as one of my fellow CFP attendees put it, we are now a lot like medieval demons: Speak our names, and we appear.
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As soon as a joint or wrinkle is detected the Pryder stops and squats and turns on full adhesion.
Take That, You Alpha Centaurian Swine! « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008
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Another potential wrinkle is star Benicio Del Toro.
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A cool wrinkle is you can check your Wii Age at any time with the Wii Fit Channel.
fbharjo commented on the word wrinkle
a crease or a pithy piece of information
decrease and increase?
February 8, 2013