different between terms vs creasy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

From crease +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?i?si/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?isi/

Adjective

creasy (comparative creasier, superlative creasiest)

1. Full of creases.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 26,^[1]

     Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial;

   • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, Etc., London: Moxon, p. 41,^[2]

     And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,

     [...] and from her lifted hand

     Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring

     To tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,

     Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d:

   • 1891, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, “The Twelfth Guest” in A New England Nun and Other Stories, New York: Harper, pp. 66-67,^[3]

     He searched there a day and half a night, pulling all the soiled, creasy old papers out of the drawers and pigeon-holes before he would answer his wife's inquiries as to what he had lost.

   • 2011, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing,” The Guardian, 8 May, 2011,^[4]

     [...] the store has created an ­exclusive fabric that looks like 100% linen but has (invisible) polyester in it. It’s ­washable, less creasy and easier to iron.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cayers, Searcy, carsey, crayes, scarey, scraye