crevice

FREQ #35734

n. 裂缝 [医] 缝

发音

UK /ˈkɹɛvɪs/
其它

词形变化

crevices 复数 crevices crevices 三单 crevicing crevicing 现在分词 creviced 过去式 creviced 过去分词

别名

crevis

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

    缝隙

    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.

  2. 2.

    The vagina.

    俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To crack; to flaw.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

crack chap fissure cleft cranny scissure

上位词 5

opening impression depression gap imprint

下位词 10

break fault split shift chap volcano fracture slit vent rift

相关短语

crevice skink eastern crevice skink Korean crevice salamander

词源

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

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