different between crevice vs cavity
crevice
English
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??v?s/
Noun
crevice (plural crevices)
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
- 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
Translations
Verb
crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)
- To crack; to flaw.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
References
- crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search
Old French
Alternative forms
- crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche
Etymology
From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).
Noun
crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)
- crayfish, crawfish
Descendants
- Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
- French: écrevisse
- ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
- ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
- English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)
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cavity
English
Etymology
From Middle English cavity, from Middle French cavité, from Late Latin cavitas, from Latin cavus (“hollow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæv?ti/
- (US) IPA(key): [?k?æv??i]
Noun
cavity (plural cavities)
- A hole or hollow depression.
- A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
- (dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hole
- (dentistry): caries
Derived terms
Related terms
- cave
- concave
- excavate
- excavation
- excavator
Translations
Further reading
- cavity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cavity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cavity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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