Furrow vs Crevasse - What's the difference?
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A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
To wrinkle
To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
(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)
To form crevasses.
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Furrow is a related term of crevasse.
As nouns the difference between furrow and crevasse
is that furrow is a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop while crevasse is gully.As a verb furrow
is to make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc).furrow
English
(Plough)Noun
(en noun)- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Verb
(en verb)- Cart wheels can furrow roads.
- Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate.
See also
* plough a lonely furrowcrevasse
English
(wikipedia crevasse)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
