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Crevice definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CREVICE, n. [L., to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.] A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall.
CREVICE, v.t. To crack; to flaw.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap]
2: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French crevace, from crever to break, from Latin crepare to crack Date: 14th century a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) ; fissure

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a narrow opening or fissure, esp. in a rock or building etc. Etymology: ME f. OF crevace f. crever burst f. L crepare

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crevice Crev"ice (kr?v"?s), n. [OE. crevace, crevice. F. crevasse, fr. crever to break, burst, fr. L. crepare to crack,break. Cf. Craven, Crepitate, Crevasse.] A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crevice Crev"ice, v. t. To crack; to flaw. [R.] --Sir H. Wotton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crevices) A crevice is a narrow crack or gap, especially in a rock. ...a huge boulder with rare ferns growing in every crevice. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Fissure, chink, rift, gap, cleft, crack, cranny, interstice.

Moby Thesaurus

abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi