crevice

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: crev=ice

CIDE DICTIONARY

crevice, n. [OE. crevace, crevice. F. crevasse, fr. crever to break, burst, fr. L. crepare to crack,break. Cf. Craven, Crepitate, Crevasse.].

 A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.  [1913 Webster]
"The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the crevice peered about."  [1913 Webster]

crevice, v. t. 

 To crack; to flaw.  Sir H. Wotton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crevice, n. a narrow opening or fissure, esp. in a rock or building etc.

Etymology

ME f. OF crevace f. crever burst f. L crepare

THESAURUS

crevice

abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi

ROGET THESAURUS

crevice

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.