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fissure
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)
- A crack or opening, as in a rock.
- (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)
- 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)
- fissure
Synonyms
- fente
Related terms
- fendre
See also
- ouverture
Verb
fissure
- first-person singular present indicative of fissurer
- third-person singular present indicative of fissurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
- 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
- vocative masculine singular of fiss?rus
Portuguese
Verb
fissure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
- first-person singular imperative of fissurar
- third-person singular imperative of fissurar
fissure From the web:
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- what fissure separates the frontal and parietal lobes
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- what fissured tongue means
- what fissures are present in the brain
- which fissure separates the cerebral hemispheres from the cerebellum
orifice
English
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin orificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of os (“mouth”) + facio (“to make”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????f?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /????f?s/
Noun
orifice (plural orifices)
- A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Late Latin orificium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.?i.fis/
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
orifice m (plural orifices)
- an orifice
Further reading
- “orifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
orifice From the web:
- what orifice do eggs come from
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- what orifice size for propane
- what orifice size for natural gas
- what orifice does a chicken egg come from
- what hole do eggs come from
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