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Crevice vs Excavation - What's the difference?

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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)
  • A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
  • * Tennyson
  • The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
  • * William Butler Yeats
  • 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.

    Verb

    (crevic)
  • To crack; to flaw.
  • (Webster 1913)

    excavation

    English

    Noun

  • (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.