corrugated
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
corrugated
adj 1: shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the
surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Corrugate \Cor"ru*gate\ (-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrugated}
(-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrugating} (-g?`t?ng).]
To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges
and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending,
or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate
plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.
[1913 Webster]
{Corrugated iron}, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate
ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater
stiffness.
{Corrugated paper}, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order
to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material
for fragile articles, as bottles.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "corrugated":
broken, bumpy, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled,
choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, cockled, cockly, corduroy,
corduroyed, corrugate, costate, cragged, craggy, creased, crimped,
crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, cross-grained, crumpled, cut, dadoed,
engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grainy,
granulated, gravelly, grooved, harsh, homespun, horripilant,
incised, inequal, ironbound, irregular, jagged, jaggy, jolty,
knitted, knotted, linsey-woolsey, pimply, pitted, pleated, pocky,
potholed, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, rabbeted, ragged, rank,
ribbed, ridged, rifled, rimpled, rippled, ripply, rockbound, rocky,
rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, rucked, ruffled,
rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed,
sawtooth, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scratched, serrate,
serrated, shagged, shaggy, slit, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stony,
striated, sulcate, sulcated, textured, troughed, uneven, unkempt,
unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, ununiform, wimpled,
wrinkled, wrinkly
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