Crevice vs Notch - What's the difference?
crevice | notch | Related terms |
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
A V-shaped cut.
Such a cut, used for keeping a record
An indentation.
A mountain pass; a defile
(informal) A level or degree.
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To cut a notch in (something).
To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
To join by means of notches.
To achieve (something).
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Crevice is a related term of notch.
As nouns the difference between crevice and notch
is that crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall while notch is a v-shaped cut.As verbs the difference between crevice and notch
is that crevice is to crack; to flaw while notch is to cut a notch in (something).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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English
Noun
(es)- ''The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
- ''This car is a notch better than the other.
World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk , 20 June:
- A better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.
Derived terms
* notch on one's bedpost, notch on the bedpost * notchback * notchboard * top notchVerb
(es)- The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.
- The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.