Entry Word: wrinkle

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a small fold in a soft and otherwise smooth surface <the old woman's face creased into wrinkles as she smiled> <the curtains cascaded onto the floor in ripples and wrinkles>

Synonyms crease, crimp, crinkle, furrow

Related Words corrugation, layer, loop, plait, pleat, ply, pucker, seam, tuck; crow's-foot

2 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination <the latest wrinkle in digital photography> — see invention 1