Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
- n. Sports A rectangular area marked off in front of the goal in hockey and lacrosse.
- n. Sports One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines.
- v. To make a pressed, folded, or wrinkled line in.
- v. To graze or wound superficially with a bullet.
- v. To become wrinkled.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A line or long thin mark made by folding or doubling; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
- n. Specifically, one of certain lines used in the game of cricket. The bowling-crease is a line 6 feet 8 inches in length, drawn upon the ground at each wicket, so that the stumps stand in the center; the return-crease, one of two short lines drawn at either end of the bowling-crease, within which the bowler must be standing when he delivers his ball; and the popping-crease, a line 4 feet in front of the wicket, and parallel with the bowling-crease, and at least of the same length. (See
cricket .) The space between the popping- and bowling-creases is the batsman's proper ground, passing out of which he risks being put out of the game by a touch of the ball in the hands of one of the opposite side. - n. A split or rent.
- n. A curved tile.
- n. The top of a horse's neck.
- To make a line or long thin mark in, as by folding, doubling, or indenting.
- To indent, as a cartridge-case, for the purpose of confining the charge; crimp.
- In hunting, to wound by a shot which flattens the upper vertebræ, or cuts the muscles of the neck, and stuns, but does not kill.
- To increase; grow.
- To increase; augment.
- n. Increase; profit.
- n. A less common spelling of creese.
Wiktionary
- n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
- n. cricket One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
- n. lacrosse The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
- n. ice hockey The goal crease; an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue.
- v. transitive To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
- v. transitive To lightly bloody; to graze.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See creese.
- n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
- n. (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
- n. (Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also
goal crease . - v. To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
WordNet 3.0
- v. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
- v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
- n. a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
- n. an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- v. make wrinkled or creased
- n. a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
- v. scrape gently
Etymologies
- Alteration of creaste, perhaps from Middle English creste, ridge; see crest. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Now school-age girls can get "double eyelids" for 2000 yuan ($250) — a procedure favored by aspiring stars — where a crease is added to the eyelids to make the eyes appear larger.”
“If Bloomberg wanted to raise revenue with the tax in crease then what matters is whether total revenue is raised.”
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“That's a 400% profit in crease .... people are so ignorant ... it's sad.”
“Guerin scored 2: 31 into the third, finishing off Doug Weight's pass across the crease from the right edge.”
“Jason Arnott made a back-handed pass sending the puck across the crease from the right circle.”
“Antropov tied it at 10: 39 when his pass to the crease from the side boards deep in Ottawa's end struck Chris Phillips 'skate and ricocheted past goaltender Martin Gerber.”
“Hemsky, slicing across the crease from the right side, batted the puck past the goalie's right shoulder, too quickly for Bryzgalov to react.”
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“Before that goal could be announced, Sergei Fedorov tossed a pass through the crease from the left boards that Modin got his stick on and directed past a surprised McLennan.”
“It is very clear that the rates of cancer in crease in the US are much faster than any possible genetic mutation of the species.”
“He cut across the crease from the left side and put a backhander by the outstretched left pad of goalie Dan Cloutier.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crease’.
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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cricket
everything cricket
backlift, bail, batsman, batsmen, batswoman, batswomen, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...
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Found Poetry
Sometimes there are definitions from the Century Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, and Wiktionary which would make lovely found poems. This is a list of words which seem to have lyrical or ...
remote, diurnally, thence, anthesis, lew, interlock, fremd, pluck, commit, meddle, cant, cloud-built and 17 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Perfect Words
Words that perfectly suit the images to which they're bound.
soap, oil, crease, gibberish, scrawl, reluctant, crust, dazzling, dollop, poop
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Sportie: Cricket
Wordieworthy jargon from the impenetrable world of cricket.
wicket, on, off, pitch, howzat, stumps, bail, willow, inswinger, outswinger, seamer, duck and 132 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crease.

ruzuzu Thank you, fbharjo. I've added it to my hence list, too. May 15, 2012
fbharjo To make a line or long thin
mark in,
as by folding,
doubling,
or indenting. May 15, 2012
hernesheir Cricket fans, listen to Roy Harper's 1970's song When an old Cricketer Leaves the Crease. You'll be glad you did, trust me. Sep 24, 2009
reesetee In stamp collecting, a noticeable weakening of the paper of a stamp or cover, caused by its being folded or bent at some point. Creases substantially lower a stamp's value. Aug 24, 2008
reesetee Also an ice hockey and lacrosse term. :-) Nov 30, 2007
bilby Cricket jargon - the areas around the wickets marked with white lines that indicate the extent of the batsman's safe territory (popping crease) and the area within which the bowler's feet must land when bowling a ball (bowling crease and return crease). Nov 29, 2007