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SCISSURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A long narrow opening
Synonyms:
cleft; crack; crevice; fissure; scissure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("scissure" is a kind of...):
gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scissure"):
chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)
chink (a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall)
crevasse (a deep fissure)
fatigue crack (a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue)
break; fault; faulting; fracture; geological fault; shift ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other)
rift (a narrow fissure in rock)
slit (a narrow fissure)
split (a lengthwise crack in wood)
vent; volcano (a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt)
