Cleft vs Cranny - What's the difference?
cleft | cranny | Synonyms |
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
A piece made by splitting.
A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
(Webster 1913)
(cleave)
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
* Arbuthnot
* Dryden
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
To break into, or become full of, crannies.
* Golding
To haunt or enter by crannies.
* Byron
As nouns the difference between cleft and cranny
is that cleft is an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting while cranny is a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.As verbs the difference between cleft and cranny
is that cleft is past tense of cleave while cranny is to break into, or become full of, crannies.As an adjective cranny is
quick; giddy; thoughtless.cleft
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cleft of wood
Derived terms
* anal cleft * * cleft chin * cleft grafting * cleft foot * cleft lip * cleft palate * cleft stick * gluteal cleftSee also
* dimpleVerb
(head)cranny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crany, .Noun
(crannies)- He peeped into every cranny .
- In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies .
Verb
- The ground did cranny everywhere.
- All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.