Crevasse vs Cleft - What's the difference?
crevasse | cleft | Related terms |
(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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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)
Crevasse is a related term of cleft.
As nouns the difference between crevasse and cleft
is that crevasse is gully while cleft is an opening, fissure, or v-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.As a verb cleft is
(cleave).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)cleft
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cleft of wood