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corrugated

corrugated

12 6.8
A material with parallel ridges and grooves, like a roof or cardboard, that makes it stronger
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɔrəˌɡeɪtɪd/
: corrugado
  • The roof was made of corrugated steel, helping to withstand harsh weather conditions.
  • corrugated cardboard
  • corrugated metal
  • corrugated roof

It's like wooden little shacks with tin corrugated roofs and stuff and got me off the bike, took me into this little Hut.

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Examples

  • After a minute's walk, they came upon a cinderblock building with a corrugated steel roof.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The people there lived in corrugated tin shacks with no electricity, no water, no toilets.

  • And then this part here is actually corrugated craft paper.

  • Behind them, just under the corrugated tin roof, stand two massive wooden

    Academic text (2002)
  • The cat is on top of her corrugated steel awning thing.

  • The creature slams into the roof repeatedly, but the corrugated metal is both light and resilient.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • A metal roof is designed to channel rainwater into six corrugated metal silos for irrigation.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The open-air market, a corrugated roof covering its meager structure, appears to be the main battleground.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Beyond the tracks on either side were high corrugated-metal sidings, battered and patched.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The process first removes recyclable glass, aluminum, iron-containing metals, corrugated cardboard, and some plastics from the refuse.

    Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

ribbed
vscorrugated
9 4.4

A surface with raised lines you can feel, like on a sweater or glass

is shaped into parallel ridges and grooves mainly to provide strength
fluted
vscorrugated
4 6.5

Having long, rounded grooves along its surface

focuses on parallel ridges and grooves to add strength rather than decoration
ridged
vscorrugated
3 5.0

Having raised lines or bands on the surface like a coin edge

is made with repeated parallel ridges and grooves for structural strength

Antonyms

224 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

Compounds

2 5.1

A metal sheet made into wavy ridges used for roofs and walls

A thick paper with a wavy layer between flat sheets used for boxes

A strong cardboard with a wavy middle layer used to make boxes

8.9

A small wavy strip of metal with sharp points that joins and holds pieces of wood together

How Ridged

corrugated
12 6.8
ribbed
9 4.4
pleated
13 3.3
wrinkled
53 1.5
flat
414 1.0

Surface Forms

corrugated positive

Morphology

corrugated = corrugate (semi-transparent) = corrugate + ed

Formed regularly as the past-participle/adjectival '-ed' of 'corrugate', but the base verb and the morpheme 'corrug-' are relatively uncommon and may be unfamiliar to many learners.

Etymology

Corrugated comes from an old Latin word corrugare, which means 'to wrinkle' or 'to fold'. Imagine a wrinkled sheet or a cardboard box with regular folds; those ridges make it stronger, so corrugated means 'made with ridges or grooves'.