crevasse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
  2. A breach in a canal or river bank. US
  3. Any cleft or fissure. broadly
    — 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.
  4. A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome. figuratively
    — […] 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.
动词 v.
  1. To form crevasses. intransitive
  2. To fissure with crevasses. transitive

词形变化

crevasses plural crevasses present,singular,third-person crevassing participle,present crevassed participle,past crevassed past

词源

词源 1
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
词源 2
From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
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