different between fissure vs gulf

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fissure, Latin fissura.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??.?/, /?f??.?/
• Homophone: fisher

Noun

fissure (plural fissures)

1. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
2. (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fissure (third-person singular simple present fissures, present participle fissuring, simple past and past participle fissured)

1. To split, forming fissures.

Translations

References

• “fissure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• fussier, surfies

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin fissura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.sy?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

fissure f (plural fissures)

1. fissure

Synonyms

• fente

Related terms

• fendre

See also

• ouverture

Verb

fissure

1. first-person singular present indicative of fissurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fissurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
5. second-person singular imperative of fissurer

Further reading

• “fissure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Participle

fiss?re

1. vocative masculine singular of fiss?rus

Portuguese

Verb

fissure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
3. first-person singular imperative of fissurar
4. third-person singular imperative of fissurar

English

Alternative forms

• gulph (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English gulf, goulf, golf, from Old French golf, from Italian golfo, from Late Latin colfos, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos, “bosom, gulf”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?lf, IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf
• Homophone: golf (some speakers)

Noun

gulf (plural gulfs)

1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
2. (obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV. i. 23:

     Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,

3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
4. (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea

5. (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
6. (figuratively) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.

   • Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
7. (figuratively) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
8. (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (difference): abyss

Translations

Verb

gulf (third-person singular simple present gulfs, present participle gulfing, simple past and past participle gulfed)

1. (Oxbridge slang, transitive) To award a degree to somebody who has only just passed sufficiently.