What is another word for crevices?

Pronunciation: [kɹˈɛvɪsɪz] (IPA)

Crevices refer to narrow openings or cracks that can be found in various places. Other synonyms for crevices include fissure, split, rift, crack, gap, and chink. Fissure is typically used to describe a deep crevice, while a split refers to a narrow opening caused by the separation of two parts. A rift is a long, narrow crack or opening, often found in rocks or cliffs. A gap can be a small or large opening, while a chink refers to a slight opening or crack, often used in the context of light or sound passing through. These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context in which they are used to describe a narrow opening.

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Usage examples for Crevices

A high rock full of crevices and fissures formed its southern wall.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Besides that which soaks through the rocks themselves, there is always a large proportion of underground water, which, as we have said above, finds a circuitous route for itself by joints, cracks, and crevices.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Nasmyth glanced at the still water and the shadow that the pines which clung in the crevices flung athwart the dark rock's side.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Crevices

  • Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
    Robert Fortune
  • I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
    Christopher Meloni
  • The makers of sneakers also thoughtfully pocked the soles with numberless crevices, craters, chevrons, mazes, crop circles, and other rubbery hieroglyphs, so that when you stepped in a moist pile of dog shit, as you most assuredly did within three bounds of leaving the house, they provided additional absorbing hours of pastime while you cleaned them out with a stick, gagging quietly but oddly content.
    Bill Bryson
  • People are inexterminable — like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices — that’s us.
    Robert Frost
  • No, teaching could be done as fast as a lightning bolt. He’d cut across the valleys of my deepest doubts, giving light to the darkest crevices of my beaten-down, inhibited mind, accessing a natural storytelling ability within me that was utterly profound!
    Victor Villaseñor

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