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crevasse
English
Etymology
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æs
- IPA(key): /k???væs/
Noun
crevasse (plural crevasses)
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
- (by extension) Any cleft or fissure.
- 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found (page 111)
- I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
- 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found (page 111)
- (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
- […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
- 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
Translations
Verb
crevasse (third-person singular simple present crevasses, present participle crevassing, simple past and past participle crevassed)
- (intransitive) To form crevasses.
- (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.vas/
- Rhymes: -as
Etymology 1
Old French crevace, crever +? -asse
Noun
crevasse f (plural crevasses)
- crevasse
Etymology 2
Inflected forms
Verb
crevasse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of crever
Further reading
- “crevasse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- crevassa (dated)
Noun
crevasse f (plural crevasses)
- (glaciology) crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field)
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cleavage
English
Etymology
cleave +? -age
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kli?v?d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kliv?d?/
- Hyphenation: cleav?age
Noun
cleavage (countable and uncountable, plural cleavages)
- The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.]
- The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline. [from 20th c.]
- (by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes.
- (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis. [from 19th c.]
- (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
- (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes. [from 19th c.]
- (politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.
Synonyms
- (separation between breasts): intermammary sulcus
Derived terms
- cleavage furrow
- cleavaged
Related terms
- cleave
- cleft
Translations
See also
- décolletage
- spathic
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