| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
Synonyms: |
channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| Concept: | Furrow. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole., channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine (interval); tajo [U.S.], thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].
-verbs
furrow; flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.
-adjectives
furrowed; ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated; bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated; canaliferous; trisulcate; curduroy, thin-wale, wide-wale; unisulcate; costate, rimiform.
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| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pathway, usually containing water |
Synonyms: |
approach, aqueduct, arroyo, artery, avenue, canal, canyon, carrier, chamber, chase, conduit, course, dig, ditch, duct, fluting, furrow, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, main, means, medium, pass, passage, pipe, raceway, route, runway, sewer, slit, sound, strait, tideway, trough, tube, tunnel, vein, watercourse, way |
| Main Entry: | crease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fold, wrinkle |
Synonyms: |
bend, bulge, cockle, corrugation, furrow, groove, line, overlap, pleat, plica, pucker, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rugosity, tuck |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incision |
Synonyms: |
carving, chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, kerf, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rabbet, rent, rip, scarification, sculpture, section, shave, slash, slit, slot, snip, stab, stroke, trench, trim, wound |
| Main Entry: | dent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, scrape, chip |
Synonyms: |
cavity, con-cavity, crater, crenel, cut, dimple, dint, dip, embrasure, furrow, hollow, impression, incision, indentation, nick, notch, pit, scallop, score, scratch, sink, trough |
Antonyms: |
bulge |
| Main Entry: | dent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chip, scrape, depress |
Synonyms: |
dig, dimple, dint, furrow, gouge, hollow, imprint, indent, make concave, mark, nick, notch, perforate, pit, press in, push in, ridge, scratch |
Antonyms: |
bulge |
| Main Entry: | ditch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gulley |
Synonyms: |
canal, channel, chase, cut, dike, drain, excavation, furrow, gutter, mine, moat, trench, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | etch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carve |
Synonyms: |
compose, corrode, cut, define, delineate, depict, describe, eat into, engrave, erode, execute, furrow, grave, impress, imprint, incise, ingrain, inscribe, outline, picture, portray, reduce, represent, set forth, stamp |
| Main Entry: | fold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | double thickness |
Synonyms: |
bend, circumvolution, cockle, convolution, corrugation, crease, crimp, crinkle, dog's ear, flection, flexure, furrow, gather, gathering, groove, knife-edge, lap, lapel, layer, loop, overlap, plait, pleat, plica, plication, plicature, ply, pucker, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruche, ruck, ruffle, rumple, shirring, smocking, tuck, turn, wrinkle |