What's the difference between rimple and rumple?

Rimple


Definition:

  • (n.) A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.
  • (v. t. & i.) To rumple; to wrinkle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of them exhibited a brownish, rimpled hyperkeratosis, the main characteristic sites being the joints, the shins and the periumbilical region.
  • (2) The occurrence of fine antral and esophageal rimpling appears to be the result of contractions of the muscularis mucosa.

Rumple


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
  • (n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
  • (2) He is sound in wind and limb, vision and hearing, his eyes sparkle, his face is scarcely rumpled by time.
  • (3) So how did this rumpled everyman, who dresses in T-shirts and baggy trousers to meet corporate chiefs, end up being courted by the global elite, from princes to politicians?
  • (4) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
  • (5) A witty man, who was a curious mixture of mischief and irritability, and who always had the rumpled appearance of one who had spent the night sleeping rough, Gray was seldom seen without a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other.
  • (6) The eggs produced were non-viable and the egg capsule comprised a rumpled lipid and ruptured chitin layer.
  • (7) Perseveringly urchin-like, he was rumpled enough to evoke Minnesota Fats' observation that dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.
  • (8) Still there are no houses or cars, just hills in folds like a rumpled blanket, empty fields – and then a crowd of black cows, way off in the lee of a line of trees.
  • (9) A vegetarian with a penchant for cardigans and rumpled trousers, he has campaigned using public transport and carrying a rucksack.
  • (10) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
  • (11) The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin , is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
  • (12) The result is that New Labour’s second generation often looks like a smooth, besuited set of careerists, elite members of a spadocracy against which Corbyn appears the paragon of rumpled authenticity.
  • (13) Somehow Corbyn looks smaller and more permanently rumpled than he actually is.
  • (14) Early into the administration he met the president and his economics team, "and it was just clear that rumpled professors with beards just didn't come across as being so impressive.
  • (15) Across the valley to the west is the rumple of a high glacier, a face of snow; to the east, a horseshoe cup of grey and green.
  • (16) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
  • (17) Expect the long-promised marriage tax bonus , a rumpled old rabbit to pull out of the Tory top hat, the idea that a small sum will send cohabiters dashing down the aisle.
  • (18) And if so, how will it cope with the fact sex is now so restricted in mainstream movies it's easier to shoot a twerking Disney star than rumpled sheets on celluloid?
  • (19) So when Matthew Dear plays London's Boiler Room club night, with everyone else's clothing lumpen and translucent with sweat, it's a pleasure to see him imperious in an elegantly rumpled white collared shirt and gothic Teddy Boy hair.
  • (20) On a July evening nearly a year later, Dr Anna Pou, wearing rumpled surgical scrubs, answered a knock on her door.

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