name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
pleat
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/pliːt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 3
A similar fold in a filter, lampshade, or various other products.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A plait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 6
To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ruffle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To plait.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- pleat my hair
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noun
Meaning 8
any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plait
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend
Narrower terms: box pleat, inverted pleat, kick pleat, knife pleat, tuck
verb
Meaning 9
fold into pleats,
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Pleat the cloth
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plicate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, fold up, turn up
verb
Meaning 10
pleat or gather into a ruffle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- ruffle the curtain fabric
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ruffle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, fold up, turn up
History
Etymology
From Middle English, from a variant of plait, from Old French pleit. Doublet of plait.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: palë — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Bulgarian: плисе (plise) — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Catalan: doblec — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Catalan: arruga — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Chinese Mandarin: 褶子 (zhězi) — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Czech: záhyb — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Czech: sámek — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Dutch: plooi — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Finnish: vekki — fold in a fabric of a garment
- French: pli — fold in a fabric of a garment
- German: Falte — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Hungarian: pliszé — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Hungarian: berakás — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Hungarian: ránc — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Hungarian: redő — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Icelandic: felling — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Irish: pléata — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Italian: piega — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Italian: pieghettatura — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Italian: plissettatura — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Japanese: 襞 (hida) — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Māori: peretihi — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Māori: apa — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Māori: pūkorukoru — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Māori: pukohu — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Norman: plié — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Norwegian Bokmål: fold — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Norwegian Bokmål: legg — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Norwegian Bokmål: plissé — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Polish: plisa — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Portuguese: plissado — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Portuguese: prega — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Romanian: pliu — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Russian: скла́дка (skládka) — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Serbo-Croatian: plise — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Southern Altai: јыйырткыш (ǰïyïrtkïš) — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Spanish: plisado — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Spanish: alforza — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Spanish: lorza — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Swedish: plissé — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Swedish: veck — fold in a fabric of a garment
- Finnish: taite — botany: fold in an organ
- Albanian: palos — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Bulgarian: плисирам (plisiram) — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Czech: plisovat — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Czech: sámkovat — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Czech: skládat — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Finnish: vekittää — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Finnish: vekata — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Finnish: pliseerata — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- French: plisser — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- German: plissieren — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- German: in Falten legen — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- German: fälteln — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Hungarian: berak — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Hungarian: redőz — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Hungarian: pliszíroz — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Irish: pléata a chur i — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Irish: pléatáil — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Italian: pieghettare — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Italian: plissettare — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Māori: kōnumi — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Romanian: plisa — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Russian: плисси́ровать (plissírovatʹ) — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Russian: де́лать скла́дки (délatʹ skládki) — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Spanish: plisar — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Spanish: tablear — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Spanish: alechugar — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Spanish: gandujar — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Spanish: engandujar — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Swedish: plissera — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Swedish: vecka — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Ottoman Turkish: بوكمك (bükmek) — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment
- Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak) — To form pleats in a piece of fabric or garment