crevice
pronunciation
How to pronounce crevice in British English:
UK [ˈkrevɪs]
How to pronounce crevice in American English:
US [ˈkrevɪs]
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- Noun:
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a long narrow opening
Word Origin
- crevice
- crevice: [14] Rather like crack, the word crevice began with the notion of the sharp noise of breaking and gradually developed to denote the fissure caused by such a break. It comes ultimately from the Latin verb crepāre ‘creak, rattle, crack’ (source of English crepitation [17] and decrepit, and probably also of craven), which passed into Old French as crever ‘burst, split’. From this was derived the noun crevace, borrowed into Middle English as crevace or crevisse. In modern French it developed into crevasse, which English reborrowed in the 19th century.=> craven, crepitation, crevasse, decrepit
- crevice (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak" (see raven); meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.
Example
- 1. The bedroom area has a balcony that ensures light soaks into every crevice .
- 2. My fingers , questing for a crevice , were again and again pulled off .
- 3. Simply put , you never know when you 'll have to yank something out of some strange crevice .
- 4. I mean a long hard look , noticing every crevice , ripple , and ridge .
- 5. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form .