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Cracks vs Crevice - What's the difference?

cracks | crevice |

As nouns the difference between cracks and crevice

is that cracks is while crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

As verbs the difference between cracks and crevice

is that cracks is (crack) while crevice is to crack; to flaw.

cracks

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (crack)

    • 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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