Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wrinkled; bent or drawn into parallel furrows or ridges: as, corrugated iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective shaped into parallel folds alternately grooved and ridged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
corrugate . - adjective Marked with
parallel folds ,ridges orfurrows . - adjective
Bent into regular curved folds orgrooves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges
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Examples
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It was as if her feet and calves were encased in corrugated iron.
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This could be achieved by recladding the house in corrugated galvanised steel or by building a more durable house in the first place.
PREFAB FRIDAY: Straw Bale Meets Factory Built in Switzerland | Inhabitat 2008
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Among the fragments of pottery picked up here were pieces of polished red ware of the southern type, and part of the bottom of a large pot of so-called corrugated ware.
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Corrugated boxes are created simply from a special paperboard, which is called corrugated paperboard.
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The company said the new barrier, VaporCoat 2200, will prevent frozen food moisture from penetrating a corrugated is a non hazardous, opaque liquid containing only water as the carrier system with no halogenated compounds or hydrocarbon co solvents, and when coated and dried onto paper or board substrates, it forms an inert transparent film, claims the manufacturer.
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Perhaps a manila envelope for the skin, but the book was nicely encased in recycled 'corrugated' cardboard, and wrapped in water resistant paper.
pleasantly surprised 2008
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Occupying its own custom-made gallery, it's the kind of corrugated tin shack where Dan Duryea might have holed up in a '40s B movie.
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Right away I could hear my father's voice say "corrugated," correcting the headline writer by using the precise term for the company's product.
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Completed in March, the homes feature unconventional materials such as corrugated aluminum and unpainted cedar siding.
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I'm looking for some kind of corrugated metal roofing material.
Metal roofing 2003
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