Crevasse vs Gully - What's the difference?
Crevasse | gully |
(literally) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm.
(figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
* 1954 : , Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953 , dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
To form crevasses.
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A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
A small valley.
(UK) A drop kerb.
A road drain.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
(UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
(obsolete) To flow noisily.
To wear away into a gully or gullies.
(Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
* 1883 , , page 139:
As nouns the difference between Crevasse and gully
is that Crevasse is a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm while gully is a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.As verbs the difference between Crevasse and gully
is that Crevasse is to form crevasses while gully is to flow noisily.Crevasse
English
(wikipedia crevasse)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Verb
(crevass)gully
English
Alternative forms
* gulley (Etymology 1)Etymology 1
From (etyl) golet, from (etyl) goulet, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia gully) (gullies)Verb
- (Johnson)
Etymology 2
Scots , of unknown origin.Noun
(gullies)- With that I made my mind up, took out my gully , opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another...
References
Gullies And Other Knives----