What's the difference between wrinkle and wrinkly?
Wrinkle
Definition:
(n.) A winkle.
(n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
(n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.
(n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
(v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
(v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
(v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(2) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(3) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(4) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(5) Substratum wrinkling was indicative of tension development and quantitated as percent of cells contracted.
(6) SMC also displayed several structurally detectable interactions with the fibrin substratum, such as organization of the gel by means of extension of numerous filamentous processes and contraction and wrinkling of the gel.
(7) A recipient cornea gradually developed wrinkling and opacification in Bowman's layer following an uneventful myopic epikeratoplasty.
(8) "But then a customer pointed out that our carpet was smoking and a chair was beginning to wrinkle in the heat, caused by the concentrated sun coming through the window."
(9) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(10) Some intercalated sheaths had a wrinkled irregular configuration and some lacked a light-microscopically distinct myelin layer.
(11) Adhesions to the Gore-SM occurred at wrinkles in or at the edges of the membrane.
(12) During the course of the irradiation the animals develop permanent wrinkles on the exposed dorsal surface, which can be recorded in plastic impressions.
(13) The deflecting wrinkle is a well-known character state of the lower m2 and M1 of the human dentition, but there is little information regarding its presence in great apes.
(14) An algorithm is used to transform the number of wrinkles, recorded just before and 2.5 and 6 hr after the injection, into the intensity of the oedematous reaction.
(15) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
(16) Kaeng Khoi virus was recovered from bedbugs (Stricticimex parvus and Cimex insuetus) and from suckling wrinkle-lipped bats (Tadarida plicata) collected in central Thailand.
(17) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
(18) The percentage of cells showing a decrease of wrinkles was significantly higher (P less than 0.05 at 5 min and P less than 0.001 at 10 min) during the ANP-treated period than during the control period.
(19) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
(20) Other specimens showed wrinkling of the outer layer that was seen later to peel off.
Wrinkly
Definition:
(a.) Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know it might sound awful coming off a pair of old wrinklies, but we’re two halves of a coin.” The memory of informing women that their husbands had been killed haunts Barry more than conflict itself Powles had never been much of a drinker in the army, but he started to drink secretly after he retired, hiding alcohol in the garage.
(2) In his 1986 limited series, Miller brilliantly contrasts a shallow and self-centred, increasingly wrinkly and jaded caped crusader with a Kal-El who remains youthful, noble and good-hearted – yet as boring as dry toast for dinner.
(3) While the oldies carry on running the show, pocketing the cash for their pension funds, tweaking the levers with wrinkly hands.
(4) Writing in the Guardian , Zoe Williams offered wrinklies an update on modern culture.
(5) 800g frozen cleaned baby octopus, defrosted ½ lemon, thinly sliced, plus 1 small lemon, peeled, the flesh chopped Salt and black pepper 100ml olive oil, plus extra to serve 3 tbsp red-wine vinegar ¾ tsp dried oregano 130g cherry tomatoes ¼ tsp caster sugar 150g dried green lentils ½ small red onion, peeled and very thinly sliced 1 medium stick celery, thinly sliced 5g (about 1 tsp) fresh oregano leaves 30g wrinkly black olives, pitted and torn Separate the octopus heads from the tentacles and put both in a medium saucepan with the lemon slices, a teaspoon and a quarter of salt and enough water (probably about 500ml) amply to cover the octopus.
(6) We emerge with wrinkly fingers, while a more recent arrival performs somersaults to assembled applause.
(7) And in that already existing environment, where women are used to being told that they're too fat, too old, too wrinkly, just too much in general, what could be simpler than to add another to the list, in the form of too smelly?
(8) So are fat women and wrinklies taking an unfair share of maternity services?
(9) There seems to be a correspondence between mouse visible skin wrinking (UV-B event) and two histological events: increase in glycosaminoglycans and alteration in collagen.
(10) She still has a screenshot of a tweet he has deleted, calling her a “wrinkly old ginger bird”.
(11) So just because we’re now old and wrinkly doesn’t mean we’ve suddenly turned into Enoch Powell or George Wallace.Racism is indefensible, but so is ageism.
(12) The wrinkly skin syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by wrinkling of the skin of the dorsum of the hands and feet, decreased elastic recoil of the skin, an increased number of palmar and plantar creases, multiple musculoskeletal abnormalities, microcephaly, and mental retardation.
(13) Because instead of just selling us physical insecurity by implying we're fat or wrinkly, beauty companies are now trying to make us feel insecure about our insecurities – all while giving themselves a pat on the back for "empowering" us to feel better (and collecting our money, of course).
(14) But now I just want to live.” The operation will throw her “into early menopause and all the horrible things that go with that - it can affect bone density, make your skin get wrinkly, give you hot flushes.
(15) Here, too, adolescents are routinely sacrificed at the behest of a ruling elite, all the while maintaining their wrinkly grip on the levers of power.