Pleat

Definition: Pleat

Pleat

Noun

1. Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape.

Verb

1. Pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric".

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

Date "pleat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

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Synonyms: Pleat

Fold

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Crosswords: Pleat

Manx (pleat, prattle, talk, talk conversation, volubility), Scottish (a plait).

Expressions using "pleat": box pleat ♦ inverted pleat ♦ kick pleat ♦ knife pleat ♦ sunburst pleat ♦ sunray pleat. Additional references.

Beginning with "pleat": pleat-waisted.

Arabic 

‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ‏طوى (double, double back, fold, lap, replicate, roll up, turn down, wreathe, writhe), ‏ثنية (flection, fold, goffer, plait, ply, ruck, shirring, tuck), ‏ثني (bend, flection, flex, flexion, pleating, turn up), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

надиплям (enfold, fold, kilt, lap, quill, ruck, ruffle), плисе (doubling, gauffer, goffer, plait), плисирам (kilt, plait), дипла (double, flute, fold, ruck, ruckle, treenail). (various references)

Chinese 

褶 (Plait). (various references)

Czech

plisovat, plisé. (various references)

Danish

plissé, fold (fold, furrow, wrinkle). (various references)

Dutch

plooi (fold), spaanplaat met plooi. (various references)

Farsi 

چین چین کردن , چین وشکن , چین (Chitlings, Crease, Crimp, Fold, Offset, Plait, Puchery, Wrinkle), تاه زده . (various references)

Finnish

laskos (box-pleat, fold, tuck). (various references)

French

pli (plica, ply). (various references)

German

Falte (crease, Crinkle, fold, furrow, line, plait, ruck, tuck, wrinkle). (various references)

Greek 

πιέτα (frill, tuck). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקפל (fold, fold up, lap, tuck), לעשות קפולים, קמט (crease, fold, wrinkle), קפל (fold, plait, tuck), קפול (fold, folding, pleating, plication, rolling up, turn). (various references)

Hungarian

ránc (crease, crinkle, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, furrow, plica, pucker, puckering, ruckle, wimple, wrinkle), pliszé (plait, plaiting, pleating), berakás (creasing, inlay, inset, marquetery, marquetry, marquetry inlay, mounting, onload, pleating, stowage). (various references)

Indonesian

menganyam (plait), melipat (enfold, fold, plait), lipatan (crease, flounce, fold, quill). (various references)

Italian

piega (bends, crease, Crinkle, fold, inclines, plait, ply, tuck, turn, twist, wrinkle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

プラント輸出 (angrily, export of manufacturing plant, in a huff, in anger, plait, planner, planning, pleated skirt, pre-, pre-amplifier, preference, prefix, preprocessor, prerecording, preset, pretty, pretty-print, priest, prima ballerina, prima donna, primitive, primitive art, prince, Prince Edward Island, prince melon, princess, princess coat, principle, printer, prism, pudding). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プリーツ (plait). (various references)

Manx

pleatal, pleat (prattle, talk, talk conversation, volubility), cur pleat ayn. (various references)

Pig Latin

eatplay.(various references)

Portuguese

preguear (frill, gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, shirr), prega (cockle, crumple, double, flute, gather, kink, plait, ply, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), plissar (goffer), plissado (gauffer, goffer, gopher), franzido (corrugated, crimpy, frilled, gather, pucker, quilling, ruckle), folha sobreposta, dobras, dobra (crease, crinkle, crumple, double, fold, gather, kink, lap, lappet, meander, plait, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle), contraplacado plissado. (various references)

Romanian

plisa (Crimp, Crinkle, draw, enfold, fold, frill, full, goffer, ruffle, tuck), cutã dublã platã, încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, purse, ridge, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle). (various references)

Russian 

гофрировать складка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

plisirati (gauffer), nafaltati, nabrati (crease, rumple, tuck), nabor (crease, crinkle, fold, frill, goffer, plait, pucker, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), falta. (various references)

Spanish

plisar, pliegue (crease, fold, kink, plait, plication, pucker, tuck). (various references)

Swedish

veck (cockle, convolution, crease, Crimp, crinkle, fold, plait, ply, pucker, ruck, ruckle, tuck, wrinkle), rynka (crease, crinkle, frill, furrow, gather, knit, line, pucker, shirr, wringkle, wrinkle), plissera (plait). (various references)

Turkish

plise (plait, plaiting, ply), pli yapmak (crease, flute, kilt, plait), pli (crease, flute, fluting, fold, plait, tuck), katlamak (bend, crease, Crimp, double, drape, enfold, fold, fold down, fold down back, infold, shut, tuck, tuck up, turn back), kırma (break, breakage, breaking, crossbred, fracture, half breed, hybrid, injury, laceration, mestizo, mongrel, unblooded, underbred). (various references)

Turkmen 

epin (crease, fold). (various references)

Ukrainian

складка (corrugation, crease, flexure, plait, plica, plication, ply, ruckle, tuck, wimple, wrinkle), плісирувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

đường xếp. (various references)

Welsh

pletio. (various references)

frounce. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pleat": pleated, pleater, pleaters, pleating, pleatless, pleats. (additional references)

Words ending with "pleat": compleat. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pleat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aleat, kleat, Oleta, Palat, paleit, paleta, peleta, pelot, pheat, pheet, pheta, pilat, plaet, plaft, plata, platp, pleaa, pleab, pleah, pleai, Plean, pleau, pledt, pleet, plega, plegat, pleia, pleka, plent, pleo, plest, plet, plett, pleu, pleva, pliat, pliea, pliet, ploet, pluit, poeta, poleta, Polreath, preat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, tepal.

-1 letter: late, leap, lept, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tale, tape, teal, tela, tepa.

-2 letters: ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, pal, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, pa, pe, ta.

+1 letter: aplite, caplet, lappet, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, pastel, pelota, petals, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals.

+2 letters: adeptly, amplest, apetaly, aplenty, aplites, apostle, apteral, beleapt, capelet, caplets, chaplet, ectypal, epaulet, explant, fleapit, haplite, heeltap, lappets, outleap, palates, paletot, palette, paliest, pallets, palmate, palpate, palters, pantile, partlet, pastels, patella, peartly, pelotas, peltast, peltate, penalty, persalt, petaled, petrale, peytral, pileate, placate, placets, placket, plaited, plaiter, planate, planets, planted, planter, plaster, platane, plateau, platens, platers, platier, platies, platted, platter, playlet, pleated, pleater, plectra, plicate, plumate, polecat, polenta, potable, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, pulsate, replant, replate, spatzle, stapled, stapler, staples, tadpole, taliped, talipes, tapetal, taphole, templar, trample, typable, upleapt.