Usually means: Fold line in paper, fabric.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word crease:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. crease, the crease: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crease, the crease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crease: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crease, crease: Wordnik
  7. crease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crease: Wiktionary
  9. crease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crease: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crease: Dictionary.com
  13. crease: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crease: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crease (band), Crease (cricket), Crease (hockey), Crease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crease: Rhymezone
  19. Crease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crease: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. crease: Free Dictionary
  23. crease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. crease: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. -crease: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crease (cricket), crease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Crease (cricket), crease: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CREASE: Acronym Finder
  2. crease: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crease: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. crease: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. crease: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. Crease: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Crease: Bay Area Video Preservation
  4. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
noun:  (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
noun:  (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
noun:  (ice hockey, handball) The area in front of each goal.
noun:  (Jamaica, slang) A crack.
verb:  (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo creasing; to form wrinkles.
verb:  (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
verb:  (UK, colloquial, intransitive or reflexive) To laugh.
noun:  Archaic form of kris. [A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.]
verb:  Archaic form of kris. [(transitive) To stab with a kris.]

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