English > crevice: 2 senses > noun 2, object| Meaning | A long narrow opening. |
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| Synonyms | crack, cleft, fissure, scissure |
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| Narrower | chap | A crack in a lip caused usually by cold |
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| chink | A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall |
| crevasse | A deep fissure |
| fatigue crack | A crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue |
| fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other |
| rift | A narrow fissure in rock / rock |
| slit | A narrow fissure |
| split | A lengthwise crack in wood |
| vent, volcano | A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt |
| Broader | opening, gap | An open or empty space in or between things |
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| Spanish | fisura, grieta, hendidura, quebradura, quebraja, raja, rendija, resquebradura |
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| Catalan | clivella, esberla, escletxa, esquerda, fenedura, fissura |
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