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单词 crevice
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crevicen.

Brit. /ˈkrɛvɪs/, U.S. /ˈkrɛvəs/
Forms: Middle English crevace, crevyce, Middle English creveys, ( creu-), cravas(e, ( crau-), Middle English–1500s creves, ( creu-), Middle English–1600s crevesse, ( creu-), Middle English creveis, creuys, crayues, ( cref(f)eys, crefes), Middle English krauers, Middle English–1500s craues, 1500s crevisse, craivesse, Middle English–1600s creuice, 1500s–1600s creuis, ( crev-), 1600s creuas, crevasse, creuise, 1600s–1700s crevise, 1700s crivess, Middle English– crevice.
Etymology: Middle English crevace , < Old French crevace, modern French crevasse < late Latin crepātia , < Latin crepāre to creak, rattle, crack: compare creve v. Already in the 14th cent. the stress began to be shifted to the first syllable, and the unaccented second syllable to be weakened to -esse , -isse , -ice . The modern French form has been re-adopted in crevasse n.
1.
a. A crack producing an opening in the surface or through the thickness of anything solid; a cleft, rift, chink, fissure.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > chink, crevice, or cleft
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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.
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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.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > crevasse
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1852 A. Smith Mont Blanc in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 53 Tairraz, who preceded me, had jumped over a crevice.
2. A deep furrow or channel. Obsolete. Cf. creviced adj.(Quot. 1609 is doubtful).
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow > deep
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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.

Etymology: < crevice n., or < French crevasser : see crevasse v.
transitive. To make crevices in; to fissure, crack, split. Obsolete except in past participle creviced adj.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure
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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).
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