crevasse
English
editEtymology
editFrom French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -æs
- IPA(key): /kɹəˈvæs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editcrevasse (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.
- (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
edita crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field
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an unexplained gap between variables and outcomes
Verb
editcrevasse (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
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old French crevace, crever + -asse.
Noun
editcrevasse f (plural crevasses)
Etymology 2
editInflected forms
Verb
editcrevasse
Further reading
edit- “crevasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: cre‧vas‧se
Noun
editcrevasse f (plural crevasses)
- (glaciology) crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field)
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