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Cervix vs Crevice - What's the difference?

cervix | crevice |

As nouns the difference between cervix and crevice

is that cervix is the neck while crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

As a verb crevice is

to crack; to flaw.

cervix

English

(wikipedia cervix)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The neck
  • The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
  • The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

    • Derived terms

    * cervical

    crevice

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
  • * Tennyson
    • The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
  • * William Butler Yeats
    • I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and not a pocket, not a crevice , of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

    Verb

    (crevic)
  • To crack; to flaw.
    • (Webster 1913)

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