"crevice" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crevice.wav 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, {{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)
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  2. (slang) The vagina. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-crevice-en-noun-DGJWVG4a
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: creviceless, eastern crevice skink

Verb

IPA: /ˈkɹɛvɪs/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crevice.wav 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, {{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

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "roman": "tréščina",
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          "text": "they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To crack; to flaw."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crack",
          "crack"
        ],
        [
          "flaw",
          "flaw"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɹɛvɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    }
  ],
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}

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