CREVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crevice mean? 

• CREVICE (noun)
  The noun CREVICE has 2 senses:

1. a long narrow depression in a surface

2. a long narrow opening

  Familiarity information: CREVICE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long narrow depression in a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

chap; crack; cranny; crevice; fissure

Hypernyms ("crevice" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long narrow opening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure

Hypernyms ("crevice" is a kind of...):

gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crevice"):

chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)

chink (a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall)

crevasse (a deep fissure)

fatigue crack (a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue)

break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other)

rift (a narrow fissure in rock)

slit (a narrow fissure)

split (a lengthwise crack in wood)

vent; volcano (a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt)

 Context examples 

O. uli, also known as Lactobacillus uli, is found in human gingival crevices and periodontal pockets where it is associated with periodontal disease.

(Olsenella uli, NCI Thesaurus)

The team suspects there must be more octopuses living inside crevices in rocks where the water is cool and rich in oxygen.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

I tapped upon the floor, but it sounded the same all over, and there was no sign of any crack or crevice.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This he then took, and rolling it into thin strips, began to lay them into the crevices between the door and its setting in the tomb.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The narrow pass was blocked by huge stones littered in wild confusion over each other, with the blue choking smoke reeking up through the crevices.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tests may include polarization, potentiostatic, galvanic, critical pitting/crevice temperature, and inhibitor testing.

(Device Degradation Corrosion Erosion Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

J. ignava is commonly found in the gingival crevices of the oral cavity and may cause gingivitis and periodontitis.

(Johnsonella ignava, NCI Thesaurus)

Human cooperation is crucial to honeyguides because bees’ nests are often hidden in inaccessible crevices high up in trees – and honeybees sting ferociously.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Had he known of the crevice, he could have closed it with a rock at the beginning and the fish would have been his.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)