Crevice vs Nook - What's the difference?
crevice | nook |
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove or recess or ancone.
A hidden or secluded spot.
As nouns the difference between crevice and nook
is that crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall while nook is a small corner formed by two walls; an alcove or recess or ancone.As a verb crevice
is to crack; to flaw.crevice
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.
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* * *nook
English
Noun
(en noun)- There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.
- The back of the used book shop was one of her favorite nooks ; she could read for hours and no one would bother her or pester her to buy.