单词 | crevice |
释义 | crevicen. 1. a. A crack producing an opening in the surface or through the thickness of anything solid; a cleft, rift, chink, fissure. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach chinec888 bruche?a1300 crevice1382 scar1390 scorec1400 rimea1425 riftc1425 riving1440 creekc1480 brack1524 rive1527 bruise1530 crack1530 chink1545 chap1553 riff1577 chop1578 chinker1581 coane1584 fraction1587 cranice1603 slifter1607 fracture1641 shake1651 snap1891 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > chink, crevice, or cleft chinec888 cleftc1374 crevice1382 crannyc1440 crack1530 crannel1534 chink1552 crank1552 gash1575 chaum1601 chawn1601 fissure1609 case1778 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Neh. iv. 7 The chinys or cravasis begunnen to be closid. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 2086 Hyt gan out crepe at somme crevace. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2183 A creuisse of an olde cragge. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 134 If þe creveis [MS. B. creffeys] perse not þe brayn scolle. c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 534 In a krauers forthe he gan hym dresse. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Craues or creues. Vide in chyncke. 1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 167 b With a barcke gapynge and havinge crevisses. 1592 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 202 Hee sees but one little beame of the Sunne, by a small creuise. a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 77 There was but a little crevis opened. 1678 tr. L. de Gaya Treat. Arms of War 73 Care must be had that there be no Cracks, Flaws, Crevasses, nor Honey Combs in her Cylender. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 266. ⁋4 To peep at a Crevise, and look in at People. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 286 In winter it lies hid in the crevices of walls. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xx. 335 Water..percolating freely through the crevices..to all depths of the glacier. b. spec. in Mining. A fissure in which a deposit of ore or metal is found. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 262 The crevice is filled with a mixture of carbonate of lead and bunches of undecomposed galena. 1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 175 Gold..known as ‘crevice gold’, from..being picked out of crevices in the bed-rock. c. Rarely = crevasse n. in a glacier. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > crevasse crevasse1823 bergschrund1843 crevice1852 rimaye1869 schrund1870 randkluft1883 slot1959 1852 A. Smith Mont Blanc in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 53 Tairraz, who preceded me, had jumped over a crevice. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow > deep crevice1574 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 1494 Leaues wherein Creuises, or small lynes are seene..Folia striatæ. 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. C4v Pish, your band hangeth right enough: what? yet more creuises in your stockings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † crevicev. transitive. To make crevices in; to fissure, crack, split. Obsolete except in past participle creviced adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure to-slita1250 rivea1400 slatterc1400 chapc1460 chip1508 gaig1584 spleet1585 split1595 chink1599 chawn1602 slent1605 slat1607 sliver1608 speld1616 crevice1624 checka1642 chicka1642 crack1664 splice1664 sleave- 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 20 They [the stones] are more apt..to pierce with their points..and so to crevice the Wall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1382v.1624 |
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