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Fissure vs Cranny - What's the difference?

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Fissure is a related term of cranny.


As verbs the difference between fissure and cranny

is that fissure is while cranny is to break into, or become full of, crannies.

As a noun cranny is

a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

As an adjective cranny is

(uk|dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless.

fissure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a crack or opening, as in a rock

    • Derived terms

    * fissure needle * fissure of Rolando * fissure of Sylvius * fissure vein

    Verb

    (fissur)
  • To split forming fissures.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    cranny

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crany, .

    Noun

    (crannies)
  • A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • He peeped into every cranny .
  • * Dryden
    • In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies .
  • A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
    • Related terms
    * any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny

    Verb

  • To break into, or become full of, crannies.
  • * Golding
    • The ground did cranny everywhere.
  • To haunt or enter by crannies.
  • * Byron
    • All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps for cranky.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)