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Dimple vs Crevasse - What's the difference?

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Dimple is a related term of crevasse.


As nouns the difference between dimple and crevasse

is that dimple is a small depression or indentation in a surface while crevasse is gully.

As a verb dimple

is to create a dimple in.

dimple

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small depression or indentation in a surface.
    • The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.
  • * Wordsworth
    • The garden pool's dark surface breaks into dimples small and bright.
  • Specifically, a small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth.
    • You have very cute dimples .

    Synonyms

    * (depression in a surface ): dent

    Verb

    (dimpl)
  • To create a dimple in.
    • The hailstorm dimpled the roof of our car.
  • To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.
    • The young girl dimpled in glee as she was handed a cupcake.
  • To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.
  • * Dryden
    • And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

    Synonyms

    * (create a dimple in) dent, mar

    Anagrams

    * *

    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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