(n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
(n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
(v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Were it the latter, you'd think he'd change the angle, either by moving across the crease or going around the wicket, because it's clear his man won't be tempted.
(2) Bifid uvula, preauricular pits, and abnormal palmar creases were also slightly more common in the patients, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(3) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
(4) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(5) Descent of a prosthesis below the desired inframammary crease is an infrequent but disturbing complication of augmentation mammaplasty, which may occur for a number of reasons.
(6) Two flaps are described which have been designed to resurface the skin around the basal flexion crease of the fingers.
(7) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
(8) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(9) This method is useful in restoring eyelid contour defects, separating the eyelid lamella to lower the upper eyelid crease, and augmenting eyelids in anophthalmos.
(10) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
(11) There are four basic surgical techniques applicable to the upper face: (1) direct browlift, (2) midforehead crease incision, (3) prehairline incision, and (4) posthairline incision.
(12) A prospective study of 125 consecutive patients undergoing coronary arteriography was carried out to evaluate the ear lobe crease with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease.
(13) The authors present a series of 74 patients who underwent injections of a biphasic copolymer (Bioplastique) to improve the facial contours or to fill deep creases and folds.
(14) The combined presence of ear-lobe crease and ear-canal hair was more definite and more sensitive index of underlying CAD.
(15) Temporal and frontal ptosis, as well as glabellar and frontal creases are treated through this approach.
(16) A posterior incision in the knee crease, rather than the conventional medial approach, gives expedient exposure for precise repair.
(17) Ambigouous genitalia, microcephaly, microphthalmia, hyoptelorism, single choanal opening, low-set ears, simian creases, Tetralogy of Fallot, bilateral hydronephrosis, and absence of the left ureter characterized an infant the died 1 hour postpartum with the karyotype 48,XXY,+13.
(18) The syndrome is characterized by short stature; a broad, prominent forehead, hypertelorism, congenital ptosis, a broad, short nose with anteverted nostrils, a long, broad upper lip, low-set, abnormally shaped and posteriorly rotated ears; simian palmar creases; brachyclinodactyly; short fingers; ligamentous laxity allowing for hyperextensibility of the fingers, genu recurvatum, flat feet; and an anomalous penoscrotal configuration resulting in "saddle" deformity with scrotal folds incircling the base of the penis.
(19) An ear lobe crease score was correlated with a coronary artery disease score, taking into account the variables of age, sex, and body mass index.
(20) With a mean frequency 1.75% of elderly primiparae, the operation took place in 60% of the cases in the year 1984 and in creased up to 80.95% during 1987.
Kris
Definition:
(n.) A Malay dagger. See Creese.
Example Sentences:
(1) What are they trying to hide?” On Thursday, commission vice-chair Kris Kobach sent a letter to states, asking for information on voters including names, addresses, voting histories, party affiliation and the last four digits of social security numbers.
(2) Still, sitting across a desk from Kris Hammond, in his office overlooking the lake shore in Chicago, it is hard not to at least have a sense of the inevitable.
(3) Over the course of this series, themes of unemployment, poor grooming and sloth emerge, all of which are qualities found in our first loser, Kris.
(4) Even the introduction of Kris Commons at the interval failed to spark their attack into life.
(5) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
(6) 5.17pm GMT Attorney David Boies, plaintiffs Sandy Stier and her partner Kris Perry, plaintiffs Jeff Zarrillo and his partner Paul Katami, and attorney Ted Olson walk out of the US supreme court after arguing to overturn Proposition 8.
(7) Kris Engskov's first job was as a gopher in a busy office with punishing hours and he would often nip out to grab the coffees if there was a crisis and the boss had to work late.
(8) To conquer his fear of women, Kris is introduced to a room full of glimmering bikini models and instructed to give them oil massages while keeping up scintillating conversation.
(9) October 8, 2013 • Downing Street dismissed claims that housing is being downgraded because the new housing minister, Kris Hopkins, is a junior minister, not a minister of state like his predecessor.
(10) Kris Hopkins, the housing minister, said that 10,000 people had bought their own property after David Cameron introduced changes to Margaret Thatcher's flagship scheme in April 2012.
(11) "It's exciting," Kris Barrie told me, "and it endows every fan with a sense of hope that our next superstar is just a walk to the stage away from taking us to the next level."
(12) In the 80th minute Kris Commons replaced Mikael Lustig for Deila’s last throw of the dice but it was Gadzhalov who somehow missed the goal from six yards from a Stewart corner.
(13) The states and their top election officials — secretaries of state Kris Kobach of Kansas and Ken Bennett of Arizona — sued the agency to force the action.
(14) John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International, said: "Kris brings a great deal of operational and public affairs experience to the role, and is an ideal candidate to continue the momentum Starbucks has achieved in this region.
(15) Mike Minor, Julio Teheran and Kris Medlen, the NL pitcher of September who will face Kershaw in Game One, are a trio of above average starters, and the bullpen, anchored by Craig Kimbrel is absolutely air tight.
(16) Responding to Forbes’s claims, Kris Hopkins, a Conservative local government minister, said: “Every bit of the public sector needs to do their bit to tackle the deficit left by the Labour government, including local government, which accounts for a quarter of all public spending.
(17) Several writers (Fenichel 1941, Glover 1955, Kris 1951, Ornstein and Ornstein 1975) have raised the possibility that what the patient receives and absorbs of the analyst's communications is not only a function of what is said but, on a more subtle level, how it is said.
(18) Kris Meeke of Northern Ireland had looked set for a challenge but skidded into a ditch on Sunday morning, which damaged the tyres on his Citroën DS3 and he slipped to sixth place.
(19) Also during the 1980s, Cash teamed up with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson to form the successful recording and touring outfit, the Highwaymen.
(20) Kris McConkey, cybersecurity partner at PwC, is on the frontline of the war against cybercrime.