FISSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fissure mean? 

• FISSURE (noun)
  The noun FISSURE has 3 senses:

1. a long narrow depression in a surface
2. a long narrow opening
3. (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes

  Familiarity information: FISSURE used as a noun is uncommon.

• FISSURE (verb)
  The verb FISSURE has 1 sense:

1. break into fissures or fine cracks

  Familiarity information: FISSURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FISSURE (noun)

Meaning:

A long narrow depression in a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

fissure; crevice; cranny; chap; crack

Hypernyms ("fissure" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Meaning:

A long narrow opening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

crack; scissure; cleft; crevice; fissure

Hypernyms ("fissure" is a kind of...):

gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fissure"):

split (a lengthwise crack in wood)

slit (a narrow fissure)

rift (a narrow fissure in rock)

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)

fatigue crack (a crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue)

crevasse (a deep fissure)

chink (a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall)

chap (a crack in a lip caused usually by cold)

vent; volcano (a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt)

Meaning:

(anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fissure" is a kind of...):

groove; vallecula ((anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fissure"):

sulcus ((anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain)

hilum; hilus ((anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ)

• FISSURE (verb)

Meaning:

Break into fissures or fine cracks

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fissure" is one way to...):

crack (cause to become cracked)

Sentence frames:

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