Crevasse vs Summit - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between crevasse and summit

is that crevasse is (literally) a crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm while summit is (countable) a peak; the top of a mountain.

As verbs the difference between crevasse and summit

is that crevasse is to form crevasses while summit is (transitive|hiking|climbing|colloquial) to reach the summit of a mountain.

crevasse

English

(wikipedia crevasse)

Noun

(en noun)

(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)

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)

To form crevasses.

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summit

English

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.

In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mt. Shasta.

(countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.

They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

Usage notes

Colloquially summit' is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a '''summit , such as the South Summit of (Mount Everest). These are distinguished by (topographic prominence) as ''subsummits'' (low prominence) or ''independent summits (high prominence).

Synonyms

* acme, apex, peak, zenith

Derived terms

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Verb

(transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.

* 2012 , Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic , vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:

Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited .

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