| 单词 | fissure |
| 释义 | fissure (once / 1689 pages) nv A long fine crack in the surface of something is called a fissure. If you see a fissure in the ice on a frozen lake, you'll want to take off your skates and head back to the car. Fissure has its roots in the Latin word fissura, meaning a cleft or crack. If something breaks into fine cracks, you can describe the action with the verb form of fissure. For example, "She watched in horror as the earth fissured beneath her feet, recognizing the signs of an earthquake but powerless to do anything to save herself except throw herself to the ground and hang on." WORD FAMILYfissure: fissured, fissures, fissuring USAGE EXAMPLESFlashbacks whisper and boom, taunt and explain, push away veils and illuminate fissures. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) Critics of Mr. Karagodin and Memorial say that pointing fingers over the past revives old enmities and creates fissures in society. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) These are the inevitable fissures in a system where more than 70 percent of Cubans work for the government but few earn a living wage. Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) 1n a long narrow depression in a surface Syn|Hyper chap, crack, cranny, crevice depression, impression, imprint a concavity in a surface produced by pressing 2n a long narrow opening Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper cleft, crack, crevice, scissure Denali Fault a major open geological fault in Alaska San Andreas Faulta major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes chap a crack in a lip caused usually by cold chinka narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall crevassea deep fissure fatigue cracka crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other rifta narrow fissure in rock slita narrow fissure splita lengthwise crack in wood vent, volcanoa fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt inclined faulta geological fault in which one side is above the other strike-slip faulta geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally gap, opening an open or empty space in or between things 3n (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes Hypo|Hyper sulcus (anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain hilum, hilus(anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ Rolando's fissure, central sulcus, fissure of Rolando, sulcus centralisa brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres; separates the frontal and parietal lobes Sylvian fissure, fissure of Sylvius, lateral cerebral sulcus, sulcus lateralis cerebrithe deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres parieto-occipital fissure, parieto-occipital sulcusa sulcus near the posterior end of each hemisphere that separates the parietal lobes and the occipital lobes in both hemispheres calcarine fissure, calcarine sulcusa sulcus in the mesial surface of the occipital lobe of the cerebrum groove, vallecula (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part 4v break into fissures or fine cracks Hyper crack cause to become cracked |
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