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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:
- what fissure separates the cerebral hemispheres
- what fissure separates the two cerebral hemispheres
- what fissure separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum
- what fissure separates the frontal and parietal lobes
- what fissure means
- what fissured tongue means
- what fissures are present in the brain
- which fissure separates the cerebral hemispheres from the cerebellum
rupture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin rupt?ra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin rupt?ra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???pt??/
Noun
rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)
- A burst, split, or break.
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
- 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History
- Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
- 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Translations
Verb
rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)
- (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
- (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.
Translations
See also
- Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- rupture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rupture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- rupture at OneLook Dictionary Search
Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?yp.ty?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
rupture f (plural ruptures)
- breakup, rupture
Derived terms
- en rupture de ban
Verb
rupture
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Latin
Participle
rupt?re
- vocative masculine singular of rupt?rus
rupture From the web:
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- what rupture means
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- what ruptures an appendix
- what ruptures an ovarian cyst
- what ruptured eardrum feels like
- what ruptured your appendix
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