| Main Entry: | crinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crumple, ruffle |
Synonyms: |
cockle, coil, crackle, crease, crimp, crimple, curl, fold, hiss, pucker, ruck, rumple, rustle, scallop, screw, scrunch, seam, swish, twist, whisper, wind, wreathe, wrinkle |
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straighten |
| Main Entry: | curl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, loop |
Synonyms: |
buckle, coil, contort, convolute, corkscrew, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crook, curve, entwine, fold, form into ringlets, frizz, indent, kink, lap, meander, ringlet, ripple, roll, scallop, snake, spiral, swirl, turn, twine, twirl, twist, undulate, wave, wind, wreathe, writhe, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| 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: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel, indentation |
Synonyms: |
canal, corrugation, crease, crimp, cut, cutting, depression, ditch, flute, fluting, furrow, gouge, gutter, hollow, incision, notch, pucker, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, scratch, slit, trench, valley |
| Main Entry: | indent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a space; push in slightly |
Synonyms: |
bash, cave in, cut, dent, depress, dint, hollow, jag, mark, nick, notch, pink, pit, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, serrate |
Antonyms: |
flush |
| Main Entry: | notch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indent |
Synonyms: |
chisel, cleave, crenelate, crimp, cut, dent, gash, incise, jag, mark, mill, nick, scallop, score, scratch |
Antonyms: |
flush |
| Main Entry: | pink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut in zigzag |
Synonyms: |
incise, notch, perforate, prick, punch, scallop, score |
| Main Entry: | shellfish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | invertebrate |
Synonyms: |
barnacle, clam, conch, crawfish, crayfish, crustacean, lobster, mollusk, mussel, oyster, piddock, prawn, scallop, shrimp, snail, whelk |
| Main Entry: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
bisulcate, bisulcous, canaliculated, cannelured, corduroy, corrugated, dadoed, fluted, foiled, furrowed, glyphic, gouged, lirate, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rugulose, striate, striated, sulcated, trisulcate, vandyked
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| Concept: | Notch. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple., embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag.
-verbs
notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scollop, scallop, crenulate, vandyke.
-adjectives
notched; crenate, crenated, pinked; denate, denated; denticulate, denticulated; toothed, palmated, serrated.
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