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Meanings of
crevice
in English
Portuguese
fenda
Catalan
esberla
Spanish
rendija
Back to the meaning
A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
crack
chap
rift
cleft
fissure
cranny
scissure
Related terms
geological structure
Portuguese
fenda
Synonyms
Examples for "
crack
"
crack
chap
rift
cleft
fissure
Examples for "
crack
"
1
We're tracking down evidence, and we hope to
crack
the case today.
2
It's a problem TV has not really been able to
crack
yet.
3
Ultimately, Coulom says, this kind of hybrid approach will
crack
the problem.
4
However, a longer reaction time resulted in the
crack
of 2-D structure.
5
During the financial crisis, policymakers pledged to
crack
down on the industry.
1
Once I met a
chap
in India way up in the mountains.
2
Would you let 'em know John Aversin's here, there's a good
chap
.
3
For our sake we hope the soldiers will leave
chap
in Africa.
4
The proportion is similar to that between the 600 Danites in
chap
.
5
A few months of training had done for that really fine
chap
.
1
Success looks likely, but don't let a slight
rift
with colleagues develop!
2
Kalanick's departure could signal a growing
rift
between technology companies and Washington.
3
A
rift
with the business community could pose other problems for Obama.
4
He said remedial action is underway to try and heal the
rift
.
5
Madikizela-Mandela's stand appears to have caused a
rift
in the Mandela family.
1
All cases were children with
cleft
lip with or without
cleft
palate.
2
But Martin saw it too, from the
cleft
in the frowning rock.
3
The smoke was carried away through a great
cleft
in the rocks.
4
Once more I noticed the
cleft
in his chinit was quite deep.
5
From the first
gill
-
cleft
is formed the tympanic cavity of the ear.
1
The Path was in Ireland, a
fissure
in the cliff at Fairhead.
2
The superomedial major
fissure
manifests as a short, obliquely oriented straight line.
3
In 67 the great longitudinal
fissure
was traversed by the bullet obliquely.
4
Another attack came from the side where the original
fissure
had been.
5
The next blow opened the
fissure
and detached the block of rock.
1
Every nook and
cranny
in the surrounding rocks was alive with birds.
2
Every nook and
cranny
of our lives were revealed to the other.
3
Your dad and I knew every nook and
cranny
in this place.
4
They have cameras in every room, every corridor, every nook and
cranny
.
5
The Blow-hole was but an insignificant
cranny
compared with this enormous chasm.
Usage of
crevice
in English
1
Their nearness was an unspeakable comfort to the two in the
crevice
.
2
Then push it well down in the
crevice
,
and pull it tight.
3
Only the
crevice
-
mouthed
caves were used, the narrower the mouth the better.
4
I stood at the entrance to the narrow
crevice
,
spear in hand.
5
Sawdust had worked its way onto every surface and into every
crevice
.
6
We worked at the
crevice
in spells, when the fancy struck us.
7
He looked like a lizard in the
crevice
of a stone wall.
8
I wriggled the spiral notebook free from the
crevice
between the seats.
9
He sought shelter in any cave or
crevice
that he could find.
10
Meantime, Desmond followed the
crevice
until he came to the stone wall.
11
So I struggle along sidewise farther into the
crevice
,
where it narrows.
12
Every crack and
crevice
between the stones being filled up with rubbish.
13
He noted a long narrowing
crevice
extending back from the main opening.
14
Before them was a seemingly interminable
crevice
along which the squaws scuttled.
15
I saw her leap the
crevice
,
drop on her knees beside Drake.
16
Allison and I explored each other's bodies, plucking away, examining every
crevice
.
Other examples for "crevice"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
crevice
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
narrow crevice
small crevice
little crevice
dark crevice
deep crevice
More collocations
Translations for
crevice
Portuguese
fenda
fissura
fresta
abertura
greta
racha
Catalan
esberla
fissura
clivella
trenc
fenedura
escletxa
esquerda
Spanish
rendija
Crevice
through the time
Crevice
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common