Rift vs Crevice - What's the difference?
rift | crevice |
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
A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
* Tennyson
* William Butler Yeats
As nouns the difference between rift and crevice
is that rift is a chasm or fissure while crevice is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.As verbs the difference between rift and crevice
is that rift is to form a rift while crevice is to crack; to flaw.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)
Anagrams
* * ----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.