The meaning of Pleat

Pleat – definition

noun
A double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side.
Usage examples:
It has a tailored collar with top button loop, hemmed sleeves, matte pearl buttons, a double-layer …
Synonims:
Fold Tuck Crease Gather Pucker Crimp Plication

verb
Fold into pleats.
Usage examples:
She was absently pleating her skirt between her fingers
Synonims:
Fold Tuck Crease Gather Pucker Crimp Plicate

Pleat translation into English

Pleat: translate from English into Chinese

褶裥

Pleat: translate from English into Dutch

Plooi, Plooien, Vlecht, Vlechten

Pleat: translate from English into French

Pli, Plisser

Pleat: translate from English into German

Falte, Plissieren, Fälteln, In falten legen, Bausch

Pleat: translate from English into Hindi

Pleat

Pleat: translate from English into Italian

Piega, Pieghettare

Pleat: translate from English into Korean

주름

Pleat: translate from English into Russian

Складка, Плиссировать, Делать складки

Pleat: translate from English into Spanish

Pliegue, Plisar, Plegar, Frunce, Fruncido, Hacer pliegues

Word origin

late Middle English: a variant of plait. The written form of the word became obsolete between c. 1700 and the end of the 19th century.

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Pleat – similar words

pleating

verb
Fold into pleats.
Usage examples:
She was absently pleating her skirt between her fingers

noun
A double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side.
Usage examples:
It has a tailored collar with top button loop, hemmed sleeves, matte pearl buttons, a double-layer …

All meanings and translations of Pleating

pleated

adjective
Having or formed into pleats.
Usage examples:
A short pleated skirt

verb
Fold into pleats.
Usage examples:
She was absently pleating her skirt between her fingers

adjective
Having narrow folds of cloth made by pressing or sewing two parts of the cloth together
Usage examples:
A pleated skirt, the trousers are beautifully cut and pleated at the waistband.

All meanings and translations of Pleated

Pleat synonims

crease

noun
A line or ridge produced on paper or cloth by folding, pressing, or crushing.
Usage examples:
Khaki trousers with knife-edge creases

verb
Any of a number of lines marked on the pitch at specified places.

noun
A line or mark made on material by folding or pressing it, or a line in a person’s skin, esp. in the face
Usage examples:
There were tiny creases in her eye shadow., [ t ] a frown creased mr. cuna’s boyish face.

All meanings and translations of Crease

crimp

verb
Compress (something) into small folds or ridges.
Usage examples:
She crimped the edge of the pie

noun
A folded or compressed edge.
Usage examples:
Anyway, hayley has pouffed her hair out into some ‘rock star’ curls and crimps, and she looks prett…

verb
To press something into small folds or curves
Usage examples:
She had her hair crimped.

All meanings and translations of Crimp

fold

verb
Bend (something flexible and relatively flat) over on itself so that one part of it covers another.
Usage examples:
Sam folded up the map

noun
A form or shape produced by the gentle draping of a loose, full garment or piece of cloth.
Usage examples:
The fabric fell in soft folds

verb
Shut (livestock) in a fold.

All meanings and translations of Fold

gather

verb
Come together; assemble or accumulate.
Usage examples:
As soon as a crowd gathered, the police came

noun
A part of a garment that is gathered.
Usage examples:
This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combinati…

verb
Assemble or get together

All meanings and translations of Gather

plicate

adjective
Folded, crumpled, or corrugated.
Usage examples:
However, like palms and some members of the iridales, they have plicate leaves, and these leaf form…

All meanings and translations of Plicate

plication

noun
A fold or corrugation.
Usage examples:
Strong radiating ribs are common in this group, and there are generally very strong plications or a…

All meanings and translations of Plication

pucker

verb
(especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds.
Usage examples:
The child's face puckered, ready to cry

noun
A tightly gathered wrinkle or small fold.
Usage examples:
A pucker between his eyebrows

verb
To press together and form small folds in something such as cloth or skin
Usage examples:
She puckered her lips and gave her grandma a kiss., [ m ] this hem is all puckered up., puckers wer…

All meanings and translations of Pucker

tuck

verb
Push, fold, or turn (the edges or ends of something, especially a garment or bedclothes) so as to hide or secure them.
Usage examples:
He tucked his shirt into his trousers

noun
A flattened, stitched fold in a garment or material, typically one of several parallel folds put in a garment for shortening, tightening, or decoration.
Usage examples:
A dress with tucks along the bodice

verb
Make a tuck or several folds in

All meanings and translations of Tuck

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