Ditch vs Crevice - What's the difference?
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A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
To discard or abandon.
To deliberately crash-land an airplane on the sea.
To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
To dig ditches.
To dig ditches around.
To throw into a ditch.
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
Ditch is a related term of crevice.
As verbs the difference between ditch and crevice
is that ditch is or ditch can be to discard or abandon while crevice is to crack; to flaw.As nouns the difference between ditch and crevice
is that ditch is or ditch can be a trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage while crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.ditch
English
Etymology 1
From earlier deche, from (etyl) dechen, from (etyl) .Verb
(es)Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) dich, from (etyl) .Noun
(es)- Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.
Derived terms
* ditchdigger * ditch weed * ditcher * ox is in the ditchSee also
* fosse * moatVerb
- Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
- When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch ; their last location was just south of the Azores.
- The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.
- Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching .
- The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.
- The engine was ditched and turned on its side.
Synonyms
* abandon * discard * dump * jettison * lose * shed * See alsocrevice
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.