crevice

crevice

a fissure or crack forming an opening
Not to be confused with:crevasse – a deep cleft in glacial ice, chasm; a breach in a river levee

crev·ice

C0744400 (krĕv′ĭs)n. A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.

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[Middle English, from Old French crevace, probably from Vulgar Latin *crepācia, from *crepa, from Latin crepāre, to crack.]

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crev′iced adj.

crevice

(ˈkrɛvɪs) n (Physical Geography) a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft[C14: from Old French crevace, from crever to burst, from Latin crepāre to crack]

crev•ice

(ˈkrɛv ɪs)

n. a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure. [1300–50; Middle English crevace < Anglo-French, Old French, =crev(er) to crack (< Latin crepāre) + -ace n. suffix] crev′iced, adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crevice - a long narrow depression in a surfacecranny, fissure, chap, crackimprint, impression, depression - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
	2.	crevice - a long narrow opening crack, scissure, cleft, fissurechap - a crack in a lip caused usually by coldchink - a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wallcrevasse - a deep fissurefatigue crack - a crack in metal resulting from metal fatiguefaulting, geological fault, fracture, break, fault, shift - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"opening, gap - an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"rift - a narrow fissure in rockslit - a narrow fissuresplit - a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"volcano, vent - a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

crevice

noun gap, opening, hole, split, crack, rent, fracture, rift, slit, cleft, chink, fissure, cranny, interstice a huge boulder with rare ferns growing in every crevice

crevice

nounA usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture:break, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, fissure, rift, split.

Translations

岩石裂缝

crevice

(ˈkrevis) noun a crack or narrow opening (in a wall, rock etc). Plants grew in the crevices. (牆壁、岩石等的)裂縫 （岩石、墙等）裂缝