| NOUN | shape | fissure, crevice, cranny, crack, chap | a long narrow depression in a surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| object | fissure, crack, cleft, crevice, scissure | a long narrow opening | |
| body | fissure | (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | |
| VERB | change | fissure | break into fissures or fine cracks |
| Sounds | fih'sher | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Ashur ... Yorkshire: 36 rhymes with sher... | |
| Meaning | A long narrow depression in a surface. | |
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| Synonyms | crevice, cranny, crack, chap | |
| Broader | depression, impression, imprint | A concavity in a surface produced by pressing |
| Spanish | fisura, grieta, hendedura, quebradura, quebraja, raja, rendija | |
| Catalan | clivella, escletxa, esquerda, fissura, trenc | |
| Verbs | fissure | break into fissures or fine cracks |
| Meaning | A long narrow opening. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | crack, cleft, crevice, scissure | |
| Narrower | chap | A crack in a lip caused usually by cold |
| 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 |
| Spanish | fisura, grieta, hendidura, quebradura, quebraja, raja, rendija, resquebradura | |
| Catalan | clivella, esberla, escletxa, esquerda, fenedura, fissura | |
| Verbs | fissure | break into fissures or fine cracks |
| Meaning | (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | anatomy, general anatomy | The branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
| Narrower | hilus, hilum | (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ |
| sulcus | (anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain | |
| Broader | groove, vallecula | (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part |
| Spanish | fisura | |
| Catalan | fissura | |
| Meaning | break into fissures or fine cracks. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Broader | crack | Cause to become cracked |
| Spanish | fisurar, hender | |
| Catalan | esberlar, fendir, fendre | |
| Nouns | fissure | a long narrow opening |
| fissure | a long narrow depression in a surface | |
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