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cor·ru·gate

(kôr′ə-gāt′, kŏr′-)

v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates

v.tr.

To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves.

v.intr.

To become shaped into such folds or ridges and grooves: "Now the immense ocean ... sensed the change. Its surface rippled and corrugated where sweeping cloud shadows touched it" (John Updike).

[Latin corrūgāre, corrūgāt-, to wrinkle up : com-, com- + rūgāre, to wrinkle (from rūga, wrinkle).]

cor′ru·gate′, cor′ru·gat′ed (-gā′tĭd) adj.

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corrugated

(ˈkɒrəɡeɪtɪd)

adj

1. (Building) folded into furrows and ridges

2. (Building) made of corrugated iron or some other material made in a corrugated pattern: a wooden shed with a corrugated roof.

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Adj.

corrugated - shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"

furrowed, rugged - having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"

corrugated

adjective furrowed, channelled, ridged, grooved, wrinkled, creased, fluted, rumpled, puckered, crinkled sheets of corrugated iron

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Translations

مُمَوَّج، مُضَلَّـع

vlnitý

bølge-bølget

gewellt

corruguéondulé

hullám-

bárujárn

increspato ondulato

gofruotas

gofrētsrievots

bølge-bølget riflet

oluklu

使起波状的弄皱的缩成皱纹的

corrugated

[ˈkɒrəgeɪtɪd]

A. ADJ → ondulado

B. CPD corrugated cardboard N → cartón m ondulado
corrugated iron N → hierro m ondulado, calamina f (LAm)
corrugated paper N → papel m ondulado

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corrugated

[ˈkɒrəgeɪtɪd] adj

[metal] → ondulé(e)
corrugated cardboard → carton m ondulé

[roof] → en tôle onduléecorrugated iron n → tôle f ondulée

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corrugated

adj → gewellt; corrugated cardboard → dicke Wellpappe

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corrugated

[ˈkɒrəˌgeɪtɪd] adj → ondulato/a, increspato/a

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corrugated

(ˈkorəgeitid) adjective

shaped into ridges. corrugated iron.

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For eight hours the broad brow of the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk was corrugated with evidences of deep thought: he was calculating the chances of war.

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There was no water in the bared and burning bars of the river to reflect the vertical sun, but under its direct rays one or two tinned roofs and corrugated zinc cabins struck fire, a few canvas tents became dazzling to the eye, and the white wooded corral of the stage office and hotel insupportable.

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Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.

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Mast-heads and funnel-tops of ships peep above the ranges of corrugated iron roofs.

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His lips stammered and halted in the making of noiseless whispers, as, with corrugated brows of puzzlement, he addressed the steward:

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She flung the tea back, spoon and all, and resumed her chair in a pet; her forehead corrugated, and her red under-lip pushed out, like a child's ready to cry.

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I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing,--the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.

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He continued gazing from the window while I spoke, and did not answer, but, stung by the recollections my words awakened, stamped his foot upon the floor, ground his teeth, and corrugated his brow, like one under the influence of acute physical pain.

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The orator having refreshed himself, wiped his corrugated forehead from left to right several times with his handkerchief folded into a pad, and concentrated all his revived forces, in a sneer of great disdain and bitterness.

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Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers, supported this position by saying, "No, indeed, my dear.

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Houndsditch Wednesday met Manchester United at the Crystal Palace, and for nearly two hours the sweat of agony trickled unceasingly down the corrugated foreheads of the patriots in the stands.

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Letterblair had laid his pen- handle against his big corrugated nose, and was looking down it with the expression assumed by virtuous elderly gentlemen when they wish their youngers to understand that virtue is not synonymous with ignorance.