crevasse en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /kɹəˈvæs/
Etymology
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Meanings
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
- (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
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(broadly) Any cleft or fissure.
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:
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(figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
[…] 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)
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| crevasses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (19)
de Gletscherspalte (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · ru тре́щина (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · fr crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · fi railo (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · id jurang es (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · mk кланец (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · fi halkeama (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · it crepaccio (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · ro crevasă (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · ro crăpătură (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · no isbre (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · mi pokorua (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · eo glaĉerfendo (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · id krevas (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · an crepaza (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · no bre (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · an crebaza (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · sv isspricka (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field) · pt crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field)