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CREVICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A long narrow opening
Synonyms:
cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("crevice" is a kind of...):
gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crevice"):
chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)
chink (a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall)
crevasse (a deep fissure)
fatigue crack (a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue)
break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other)
rift (a narrow fissure in rock)
slit (a narrow fissure)
split (a lengthwise crack in wood)
vent; volcano (a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A long narrow depression in a surface
Synonyms:
chap; crack; cranny; crevice; fissure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("crevice" is a kind of...):
depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)
Context examples:
The hollows under fallen trees seemed to attract her, and she spent much time nosing about among the larger snow-piled crevices in the rocks and in the caves of overhanging banks.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
E. alactolyticum, also known as Pseudoramibacter alactolyticus, has been isolated from dental calculus and gingival crevices in individuals with periodontal disease.
(Eubacterium alactolyticum, NCI Thesaurus)
No matter what it was, I, the moon-struck slave of Dora, perambulated round and round the house and garden for two hours, looking through crevices in the palings, getting my chin by dint of violent exertion above the rusty nails on the top, blowing kisses at the lights in the windows, and romantically calling on the night, at intervals, to shield my Dora—I don't exactly know what from, I suppose from fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The first half was perfectly easy, but from there upwards it became continually steeper until, for the last fifty feet, we were literally clinging with our fingers and toes to tiny ledges and crevices in the rock.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then, at last, we saw the formless mass of the huge Crawley elm looming before us in the gloom, and there was the broad village street with the glimmer of the cottage windows, and the high front of the old George Inn, glowing from every door and pane and crevice, in honour of the noble company who were to sleep within that night.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Issue associated with the undesired introduction of impurities to a device, or the insufficient removal of any visible soil, foreign material or organism deposits on the external surfaces, crevices, and joints of a device by a mechanical and/or manual process intended to render the device sterile, safe for handling, and/or for further processes to decontaminate.
(Cleaning Disinfecting or Sterilization Problem during Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)
A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope, and did not know what to do.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Issue associated with the insufficient removal of unwanted visible soil, foreign material or organism deposits on the external surfaces, crevices, joints of a device by a mechanical and/or manual process intended to render the device sterile, safe for handling, and/or for further processes to decontaminate.
(Inadequate Medical Device Cleaning, Food and Drug Administration)
Through this crevice a small room was visible, whitewashed and clean but very bare of furniture.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
