fissure
pronunciation
How to pronounce fissure in British English:
UK [ˈfɪʃə(r)]
How to pronounce fissure in American English:
US [ˈfɪʃɚ]
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- Noun:
- a long narrow depression in a surface
- a long narrow opening
- (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
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- Verb:
- break into fissures or fine cracks
Word Origin
- fissure
- fissure: see vent
- fissure (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French fissure (13c.) and directly from Latin fissura "a cleft," from root of findere "to split, cleave, separate, divide," from PIE *bhi-n-d-, from root *bheid- "to split" (cognates: Sanskrit bhinadmi "I cleave," Old High German bizzan "to bite," Old English bita "a piece bitten off, morsel," Old Norse beita "to hunt with dogs," beita "pasture, food").
Example
- 1. This giant fissure was created in the german town of geldern to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a street art competition .
- 2. As with the collapse of lehman brothers in 2008 , a sudden fissure would wreck all analysis based on recent trends .
- 3. A second problem is a fissure between the big cities and the countryside .
- 4. The runway starts shaking and cracking and a huge fissure opens up .
- 5. The recent eruptions hadn 't been classic , spouting-out-the-top types , so-called plinian eruptions , but rather fissure eruptions , like bursting pipes .