Synonyms of the word

plait

• n. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
• n. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
• v. (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid;.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

braid

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
• v. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
• v. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
• v. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
• n. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
• n. A fancy; freak; caprice.
• adj. (obsolete) deceitful.

coif

• n. A hairdo.
• n. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until XVIII century; after that worn…
• n. An item of chain mail headgear.
• n. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
• v. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.

coiffure

• n. hairstyle.
• v. (transitive) to style or arrange hair.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crimp

• adj. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• adj. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together,…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
• n. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• n. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many…
• n. (obsolete) A card game.
• v. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• v. To style hair into a crimp.
• v. To join the edges of food products.
• n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing…
• n. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a…
• v. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

flexure

• n. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
• n. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
• n. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
• n. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
• n. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

hairdo

• n. A hairstyle.
• n. A haircut.

hairstyle

• n. The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.

interweave

• v. To combine two things through weaving.

lace

• n. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.^W.
• n. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten…
• n. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
• n. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
• v. (transitive) To fasten (something) with laces.
• v. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
• v. (transitive) To interweave items.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
• v. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
• v. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

pleat

• n. (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with…
• n. (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending…
• n. A plait.
• v. (transitive) To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.

plication

• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding.
• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together…

tissue

• n. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
• n. A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver…
• n. A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a…
• n. Absorbent paper as material.
• n. (biology) A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job.
• n. Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
• v. To form tissue of; to interweave.

tress

• n. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
• n. (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
• v. To braid or knot hair.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

weave

• v. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
• v. To spin a cocoon or a web.
• v. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
• v. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
• n. A type or way of weaving.
• n. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural…
• v. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
• v. (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.