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Crease-resistant

Definition: Crease-resistant

Crease-resistant

Adjective

1. Of fabric that does not wrinkle easily.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Crease-resistant

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

A term applied to fabrics which have been given a finish to increase resistance to and recovery from wrinkling in use. The fabric is usually treated with a synthetic resin. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Crease-resistant

Synonyms: creaseproof (adj), wrinkleproof (adj), wrinkle-resistant (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Crease-resistant

English words defined with "crease-resistant": AcrilanOrlonpolypropenonitrile. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Crease-resistant

"Crease-resistant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crease-resistant" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Crease-resistant

Language Translations for "crease-resistant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

nemaèkavý (non-creasing). (various references)

   

German

  

knitterfrei (crease resistant, non-crushable, uncrushable, wrinkle-free). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ease-resistantcray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Crease-resistant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-i-n-r-r-s-s-s-t-t"

-3 letters: necessitates, secretariats.

-4 letters: cattinesses, iratenesses, necessaries, necessitate, resistances, secretariat, secretaries, tacitnesses, tetracaines, traitresses, tritenesses.

-5 letters: ancestress, ancestries, antistress, arrestants, artinesses, ascertains, assistance, careerists, caseinates, catenaries, cateresses, certainest, easterners, entreaties, increasers, intercaste, intersects, racinesses, rarenesses, reinstates, reiterates, resistance, resistants, restraints, sacristans, scatterers, scenarists, sectarians, staircases, straitness, streetcars, strictness, tarriances, tartnesses, tearstains, tesseracts, tetracaine, titanesses.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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