Fracture vs Rift - What's the difference?
fracture | rift | Related terms |
the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage
(geology) a fault or crack in a rock
to break, or cause something to break
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
As nouns the difference between fracture and rift
is that fracture is the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage while rift is a chasm or fissure.As verbs the difference between fracture and rift
is that fracture is to break, or cause something to break while rift is to form a rift.fracture
English
(wikipedia fracture)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* compound fracture * fracture mechanics * greenstick fracture * hairline fracture * incomplete fracture * Jones fracture * simple fracture * Smith's fracture * stress fracture * tracheal fracture * vowel fractureVerb
External links
* * English ergative verbs ----rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)