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furrow
English
Etymology
From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *per?- (“to dig”).
Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar?šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit ?????? (pár??na, “chasm”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??o?/, /?f?o?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
furrow (plural furrows)
- A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
- A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Derived terms
- furrowless
- furrowlike
- furrowy
Translations
Verb
furrow (third-person singular simple present furrows, present participle furrowing, simple past and past participle furrowed)
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- Synonym: frown
Derived terms
- furrower
- furrowing
- unfurrow
- unfurrowed
Translations
See also
- plough a lonely furrow
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crevasse
English
Etymology
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æs
- IPA(key): /k???væs/
Noun
crevasse (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.
- 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found (page 111)
- (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
Verb
crevasse (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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.vas/
- Rhymes: -as
Etymology 1
Old French crevace, crever +? -asse
Noun
crevasse f (plural crevasses)
- crevasse
Etymology 2
Inflected forms
Verb
crevasse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of crever
Further reading
- “crevasse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- crevassa (dated)
Noun
crevasse f (plural crevasses)
- (glaciology) crevasse (a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field)
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