corrugated
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6.8
- 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.
- It's like wooden little shacks with tin corrugated roofs and stuff and got me off the bike, took me into this little Hut.
- And on this certain part of the street, I drove past two identical, identical buildings with corrugated facades, like Gray corrugated facades.
- It's like a blue kind of corrugated material thing.
Examples
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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.
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And then this part here is actually corrugated craft paper.
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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.
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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
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4.4
A surface with raised lines you can feel, like on a sweater or glass
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5.0
Having raised lines or bands on the surface like a coin edge
Having long, rounded grooves along its surface
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
A small wavy strip of metal with sharp points that joins and holds pieces of wood together
How Ridged
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.