taittaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• crease noun A line or fold made by pressing, bending, or wrinkling fabric or paper.
• fold verb To bend something, especially paper or fabric, over on itself.
• page noun One side of a sheet of paper in a book, magazine, or document.
• ply verb To work steadily at something, or use a tool with regular effort.
• turn verb To move or rotate around an axis, or to change direction.

Senses

taittaa is used for these senses in English:

• jack-knife To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
• page (typesetting) The type set up for printing a page.
• ply (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
• refract (transitive, figurative) To mediate; to alter; to distort.
• refract (transitive, optics) To cause (light) to change direction as a result of entering a different medium.
• turn (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.

crease — full definition

1. noun A line or fold made by pressing, bending, or wrinkling fabric or paper.
2. noun In sports such as cricket or ice hockey, a marked line or area defining part of the playing field.
3. verb To form a fold or wrinkle in something.

fold — full definition

1. verb To bend something, especially paper or fabric, over on itself.
2. verb To stop or withdraw, especially from a card game bet or a failing business.
3. noun A crease or bend made by folding.
4. noun A fenced enclosure for keeping sheep, or, figuratively, a group united by shared belief or purpose.

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