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rift
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?ft, IPA(key): /??ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Noun
rift (plural rifts)
- A chasm or fissure.
- My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Derived terms
- rift valley
Translations
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
- (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
- to rift an oak
- to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
- 1822, William Wordsworth, "A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)" 9-11, [1]
- The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]
- he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
Etymology 3
Verb
rift (obsolete)
- past participle of rive
- The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
- Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
Anagrams
- FTIR, frit
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb rive
Noun
rift f or m (definite singular rifta or riften, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “rift” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb rive or riva
Noun
rift f (definite singular rifta, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rift?, *riftij?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?reb?- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rift/
Noun
rift n (nominative plural rift)
- a veil; curtain; cloak
Related terms
- rifte
Descendants
- Middle English: rift
Romanian
Etymology
From French rift.
Noun
rift n (plural rifturi)
- rift
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular present rifts, present participle riftin, past riftit, past participle riftit)
- to belch, burp
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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)
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