Corrugated
adjective
Having a surface with a series of folds, ridges, or grooves.
The shed was made of corrugated tin.
Often appears as...
- corrugated iron
- corrugated metal
verb
To fold or be folded into a shape with many parallel folds or ridges.
The landscape had been corrugated by the forces of nature.
Often appears as...
- surface is corrugated
- corrugated by pressure
adjective
Having a surface with a series of folds, ridges, or grooves.
The shed was made of corrugated tin.
Often appears as...
- corrugated iron
- corrugated metal
verb
To fold or be folded into a shape with many parallel folds or ridges.
The landscape had been corrugated by the forces of nature.
Often appears as...
- surface is corrugated
- corrugated by pressure
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Pro Tip 1/3Material Strength
Corrugated materials like cardboard are chosen for strength and durability in packaging.
My online order came in a corrugated box to protect the contents.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Look
'Corrugated' often suggests a rugged, industrial aesthetic, commonly found in architecture.
The cafe had an industrial theme with corrugated steel walls.
Pro Tip 3/3Sound Absorption
Corrugated surfaces can help absorb sound, used in certain acoustic applications.
The studio was lined with corrugated foam for soundproofing.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Strength
Corrugated materials like cardboard are chosen for strength and durability in packaging.
My online order came in a corrugated box to protect the contents.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Look
'Corrugated' often suggests a rugged, industrial aesthetic, commonly found in architecture.
The cafe had an industrial theme with corrugated steel walls.
Pro Tip 3/3Sound Absorption
Corrugated surfaces can help absorb sound, used in certain acoustic applications.
The studio was lined with corrugated foam for soundproofing.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Strength
Corrugated materials like cardboard are chosen for strength and durability in packaging.
My online order came in a corrugated box to protect the contents.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Look
'Corrugated' often suggests a rugged, industrial aesthetic, commonly found in architecture.
The cafe had an industrial theme with corrugated steel walls.
Pro Tip 3/3Sound Absorption
Corrugated surfaces can help absorb sound, used in certain acoustic applications.
The studio was lined with corrugated foam for soundproofing.
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Karen Tse: How to stop...
to do every day is he wanted to go visit. You know, he never quite made it to all of them every day, but he wanted to visit all 156 prisoners. And I would lift him, and he would put his fingers through. Or if they were dark cells, it was like iron corrugated, and he would put his fingers through. And most of the prisoners said that he was
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Sound Meets Sculpture...
fascinated by this experience where objects appear to have this inner life. The dervishes is the name for a musical instrument. It has 14 large spinning sort of wing-like arms. And each arm has a corrugated plastic tube on it. And the tubes are of different diameters,
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Visualizing hidden...
when I photographed them in the microscope. We're going to take a detour and zoom in on the heart muscle now. And the heart muscle has this curious structure that's kind of like corrugated cardboard. That's what allows the heart to expand and contract as it's beating.
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How repaying loans with...
she faced a daunting challenge of what's next. She knew she had to start her own business to survive. And to help her mother, who had tried so hard to keep her in school by selling her only assets, a stack of corrugated iron sheets she had been saving
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The architectural wonder...
eight-foot tall bamboo, string or rope, nails or screw and a skinning material. Could be corrugated metal, a fabric or plastic. And these materials come together and aggregate. It's like a kit of parts. And it's used all the way from a small tent,
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Jacqueline Novogratz:...
when they were living in a -- literally a three-walled lean-to with a corrugated iron roof. After one harvest, they had increased their income enough to buy a second system to do their full quarter-acre. A couple of years later, I meet them.
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The gender-fluid history...
about what society expects from each of us but old enough to be aware of what's going on around you. We lived in a one-bedroom house, all five of us. Our house was amongst clusters of houses made mostly of wood and corrugated metal sheets.
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Alwar Balasubramaniam:...
And skin at the other end also represents the floor. I did this as an experiment of casting the shadow. So this is a corrugated box and its shadow. Then the second one -- the moment you bring any invisible into the visible world
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Frank Gehry: Nice...
And when I started out, I thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff. And I realized when I'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff,
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The business case for...
It's virgin material, it's made from chlorine bleaching chemicals, and they said, use an unbleached bag, no chemicals. It's made from recycled content, mostly recycled shipping corrugated boxes.
Video examples
Karen Tse: How to stop...
to do every day is he wanted to go visit. You know, he never quite made it to all of them every day, but he wanted to visit all 156 prisoners. And I would lift him, and he would put his fingers through. Or if they were dark cells, it was like iron corrugated, and he would put his fingers through. And most of the prisoners said that he was
Video examples
Sound Meets Sculpture...
fascinated by this experience where objects appear to have this inner life. The dervishes is the name for a musical instrument. It has 14 large spinning sort of wing-like arms. And each arm has a corrugated plastic tube on it. And the tubes are of different diameters,
Video examples
Visualizing hidden...
when I photographed them in the microscope. We're going to take a detour and zoom in on the heart muscle now. And the heart muscle has this curious structure that's kind of like corrugated cardboard. That's what allows the heart to expand and contract as it's beating.
Video examples
How repaying loans with...
she faced a daunting challenge of what's next. She knew she had to start her own business to survive. And to help her mother, who had tried so hard to keep her in school by selling her only assets, a stack of corrugated iron sheets she had been saving
Video examples
The architectural wonder...
eight-foot tall bamboo, string or rope, nails or screw and a skinning material. Could be corrugated metal, a fabric or plastic. And these materials come together and aggregate. It's like a kit of parts. And it's used all the way from a small tent,
Video examples
Jacqueline Novogratz:...
when they were living in a -- literally a three-walled lean-to with a corrugated iron roof. After one harvest, they had increased their income enough to buy a second system to do their full quarter-acre. A couple of years later, I meet them.
Video examples
The gender-fluid history...
about what society expects from each of us but old enough to be aware of what's going on around you. We lived in a one-bedroom house, all five of us. Our house was amongst clusters of houses made mostly of wood and corrugated metal sheets.
Video examples
Alwar Balasubramaniam:...
And skin at the other end also represents the floor. I did this as an experiment of casting the shadow. So this is a corrugated box and its shadow. Then the second one -- the moment you bring any invisible into the visible world
Video examples
Frank Gehry: Nice...
And when I started out, I thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff. And I realized when I'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff,
Video examples
The business case for...
It's virgin material, it's made from chlorine bleaching chemicals, and they said, use an unbleached bag, no chemicals. It's made from recycled content, mostly recycled shipping corrugated boxes.
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Ernest Cline
American Novelist
I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
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Frank Gehry
American Architect
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
American Writer
In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.
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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
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Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.
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Ernest Cline
American Novelist
I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
Quote examples
Frank Gehry
American Architect
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
Quote examples
Eliezer Yudkowsky
American Writer
In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.
Quote examples
Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
Quote examples
Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.
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