Rift vs Cavity - What's the difference?

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Rift is a related term of cavity.

As nouns the difference between rift and cavity

is that rift is a chasm or fissure while cavity is a hole or hollow depression.

As a verb rift

is to form a or rift can be to belch or rift can be .

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)

A chasm or fissure.

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.

A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.

* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:

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.

A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Verb

(en verb)

To form a .

To cleave; to rive; to split.

to rift an oak

* Wordsworth

To dwell these rifted rocks between.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) rypta.

Verb

(en verb)

To belch.

Etymology 3

Verb

(head)

(Spenser)

Anagrams

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cavity

English

Noun

(cavities)

A hole or hollow depression.

A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).

(dentistry) A soft area in a decayed tooth.

Synonyms

* See also * (dentistry)

Derived terms

* buccal cavity * cavity back * cavity batten * cavity coupling * cavity fill * cavity filter * cavity impedence * cavity magnetron * cavity oscillator * cavity radiator * cavity resonance * cavity tray * cavity tuning * cavity vent * cavity wall * oral cavity

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