Rift vs Ravine - What's the difference?
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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 deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
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As nouns the difference between rift and ravine
is that rift is a chasm or fissure while ravine is a deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.As a verb rift
is to form a rift.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
* * ----ravine
English
("ravine" on Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}