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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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excavation
English
Etymology
From Latin excav?ti? (“a hollowing out”), from excav? (“I hollow out”), from ex + cav? (“I hollow out”), from cavus (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *keu- (“vault, hole”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
excavation (countable and uncountable, plural excavations)
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
Translations
French
Pronunciation
Noun
excavation f (plural excavations)
- excavation
Further reading
- “excavation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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