Crevice vs Den - What's the difference?
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A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
(UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
(a unit of weight)
As nouns the difference between crevice and den
is that crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall while den is a small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.As verbs the difference between crevice and den
is that crevice is to crack; to flaw while den is to ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.As an abbreviation den is
abbreviation of lang=en (a unit of weight.As a proper noun Den is
a diminutive of the male given name Dennis.crevice
English
Noun
(en noun)- The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
- 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.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) den, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a den of robbers
- Daniel was put into the lions’ den .
- a den of vice
- an opium den'''; a gambling '''den
- (Shakespeare)