Crevice vs Excavation - What's the difference?
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A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
(uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
(countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
Crevice is a related term of excavation.
As nouns the difference between crevice and excavation
is that crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall while excavation is (uncountable) the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.As a verb crevice
is to crack; to flaw.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.