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Meanings of fissure in English
Synonyms
Examples for "gap"
Examples for "gap"
1
The budget gap could reach 250 billion pesos this year, traders said.
2
I tell them it's a great year to take a gap year.
3
Falling U.S. demand thanks to the financial crisis narrowed the trade gap.
4
The information gap between state authorities and FINRA has existed for years.
5
That's a far better way of funding India's yawning current account gap.
1
Here in the mouth of the gorge the silence was almost oppressive.
2
He reckoned that they rode at least three miles in the gorge.
3
Proceeded down the creek to the gorge and camped; day very hot.
4
I don't want to do anything either, just continue to gorge on
5
The declivity marks the end of the precipitous gorge of the Niagara.
1
Zimbabwe has taken several steps closer to the abyss in recent days.
2
We shall protect them from stepping into the endless abyss, she said.
3
He was looking past history and into the abyss of unadulterated truth.
4
The Belgian people live now in the abyss of want and woe.
5
His surprise made him stupid; he was in an abyss of astonishment.
1
He has seen the movement of the sea in the chasm below.
2
As the three sat in silence, the gloom in the chasm thickened.
3
The chasm is not the only major split in the Brunt, however.
4
The chasm between the teams extended beyond quality, confidence and single-minded ambition.
5
For a moment she saw the chasm again, the bridge, the road.
1
The precipice grew in the darkness; the vertical rock had no ending.
2
Whatever it takes to prevent your beloved state falling off that precipice.
3
She blinked several times and saw they had halted on a precipice.
4
I came down the precipice, and lost my way in the bushes.
5
Once in a while I gave a look towards the ugly precipice.
Usage of fissure in English
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.
6
The fissure may be incomplete or absent, complicating identification of various diseases.
7
White steam rose from the cracks and fissure of the heated granaries.
8
How far ahead the fissure extended he could form no idea yet.
9
Yet the top showed no evidence of a widening of the fissure.
10
As he spoke, there was a sound of voices in the fissure.
11
The coalesced vent of the Fimmvörðuháls fissure eruption in late March 2010.
12
There were no means of retreat in face of that amazing fissure.
13
Leoman practised with his morningstars at the widest point of the cave-fissure.
14
Usually the smooth rock slopes down to the fissure on either side.
15
The region had been named after a fissure in the limestone cliffs.
16
They powered down the fissure towards the unreal light of the core.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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