Crevasse vs Canyon - What's the difference?
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(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.
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To form crevasses.
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A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
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As nouns the difference between crevasse and canyon
is that crevasse is a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm while canyon is a valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.As a verb crevasse
is to form crevasses.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)canyon
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
