"crevice" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crevice.wav [Southern-England] Forms: crevices [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|crevice}} Middle English crevice, {{der|en|fro|crevace}} Old French crevace, {{m|fro|crever||to break, burst}} crever (“to break, burst”), {{der|en|la|crepare||to break, burst, crack}} Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”), {{doublet|en|crevasse}} Doublet of crevasse Head templates: {{en-noun}} crevice (plural crevices)
  1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall. Translations (narrow crack): пукнатина (puknatina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), цепнатина (cepnatina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 缝隙 (fèngxì) (Chinese (Simplified)), spleet (Dutch), fendaĵo (Esperanto), halkeama (Finnish), fissure f fente [feminine] (French), anfractuosité [feminine] (French), ნაპრალი (naṗrali) (Georgian), Spalt [masculine] (German), Spalte [feminine] (German), Felsspalt (english: rock) [masculine] (German), Felsritze (english: rock) [feminine] (German), Mauerspalt (english: wall) (German), Mauerritze (english: wall) [feminine] (German), סדק (sédek) [masculine] (Hebrew), בקיע (bekía) [masculine] (Hebrew), hasadék (english: rock) (Hungarian), repedés (english: wall) (Hungarian), fessura [feminine] (Italian), fenditura [feminine] (Italian), crepa [feminine] (Italian), 亀裂 (kiretsu) (alt: きれつ) (Japanese), rīma [feminine] (Latin), crepātūra [feminine] (Latin), пукна́тина (puknátina) [feminine] (Macedonian), про́цеп (prócep) [masculine] (Macedonian), شکاف (šekâf) (Persian), رخنه (rexne) (Persian), szpara [feminine] (Polish), rysa [feminine] (Polish), szczelina [feminine] (Polish), fenda [feminine] (Portuguese), fresta [feminine] (Portuguese), spărtură [feminine] (Romanian), fisură [feminine] (Romanian), тре́щина (tréščina) [feminine] (Russian), расще́лина (rasščélina) [feminine] (Russian), pukotina [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), štrbina (Slovak), škára (Slovak), spricka [common-gender] (Swedish), klyfta [common-gender] (Swedish), skreva [common-gender] (Swedish), biyak (Tagalog), çatlak (Turkish), yarık (Turkish), gedik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-crevice-en-noun-lrtD3~nE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 6 23 Disambiguation of 'narrow crack': 100 0
  2. (slang) The vagina. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-crevice-en-noun-DGJWVG4a
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: eastern crevice skink

Verb

IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crevice.wav [Southern-England] Forms: crevices [present, singular, third-person], crevicing [participle, present], creviced [participle, past], creviced [past]
Etymology: From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|crevice}} Middle English crevice, {{der|en|fro|crevace}} Old French crevace, {{m|fro|crever||to break, burst}} crever (“to break, burst”), {{der|en|la|crepare||to break, burst, crack}} Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”), {{doublet|en|crevasse}} Doublet of crevasse Head templates: {{en-verb}} crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)
  1. To crack; to flaw.
    Sense id: en-crevice-en-verb-~5EAxql8

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          "lang": "Tagalog",
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          "ref": "2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
      "word": "缝隙"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
      "word": "ნაპრალი"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "word": "Spalt"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "narrow crack",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Spalte"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "word": "Felsspalt"
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "word": "Felsritze"
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      "code": "de",
      "english": "wall",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "code": "he",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "word": "סדק"
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      "code": "he",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "hasadék"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "fessura"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "亀裂"
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      "code": "fa",
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      "code": "fa",
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      "roman": "rexne",
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      "word": "رخنه"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "rysa"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "szczelina"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "fresta"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "тре́щина"
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "narrow crack",
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    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "narrow crack",
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      "code": "tr",
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}

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