| NOUN | object | scissure, crack, cleft, crevice, fissure | a long narrow opening |
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| Meaning | A long narrow opening. | |
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| Synonyms | crack, cleft, crevice, fissure | |
| 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 | |
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