different between fissure vs sinkhole

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

• sink hole, sink-hole

Etymology

From Middle English sinkehole, sinkeholl, equivalent to sink +? hole.

Noun

sinkhole (plural sinkholes)

1. (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage

   Synonyms: cenote, doline, dolina, (Britain) kettle hole, shakehole, (Britain) sink, (Britain) swallet, swallow hole

2. A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
3. (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
   • 1997, Windows magazine (volume 8, issues 1-3)

     Pro Pinball is as authentic as pinball has ever been on the PC. It's all here, from the ramps, bumpers and sinkholes to the satisfying "clack" when you make the high-score list.

4. (Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
5. (computer security) An attack which redirects requests - be it network or memory accesses - to a new location defined by the attacker.

Translations

Verb

sinkhole (third-person singular simple present sinkholes, present participle sinkholing, simple past and past participle sinkholed)

1. (Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).