different between fracture vs crevasse
fracture
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fracture, from Latin fract?ra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg-, from whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?æk.t??/, /?f?æk.tj?/
Noun
fracture (plural fractures)
- An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
- (medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.
- (geology) A fault or crack in a rock.
Derived terms
Related terms
- fractal
- fraction
- fragment
Translations
Verb
fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)
- (transitive, intransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
- (transitive, slang) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
Translations
Further reading
- fracture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fracture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Middle French fracture, from late Old French fracture, borrowed from Latin fract?ra. Compare the inherited Old French fraiture, and the frainture (influenced by fraindre).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ak.ty?/
Noun
fracture f (plural fractures)
- fracture
Related terms
- fraction
Descendants
- ? Romanian: fractur?
Further reading
- “fracture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
fr?ct?re
- vocative masculine singular of fr?ct?rus
Spanish
Verb
fracture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
fracture From the web:
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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)
crevasse From the web:
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