crevasse

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
2. (US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
3. (broadly) Any cleft or fissure.
4. (figuratively) A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To form crevasses.
2. (transitive) To fissure with crevasses.

Conceptos

grieta

abierto

brecha

Sinónimos

crack

fissure

crevice

cleft

split

slit

double-humped resonance

breach

chasm

slot

rent

rift

scissure

torn

Chink

incisura

gully

chap

cracked

ditch

fissuring

fracture

gap

gorge

abyss

ravine

Traducciones

crevasse

Gletscherspalte

crepaccio

spleet

Spalte

crevasse

scheur

crepa

fissura

esquerda

σχισμάδα

ρωγμή

rogmí

clivella

مهوا

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɹəˈvæs/

Etimología (Inglés)

From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

Oraciones

Anyone planning to travel on a glacier should be trained in crevasse rescue .

Cualquiera que planee viajar en un glaciar debe ser entrenado en el rescate de Crevasse.