crevice: [14] Rather like crack, the word crevice began with the notion of the sharp noise of breaking and gradually developed to denote the fissure caused by such a break. It comes ultimately from the Latin verb crepāre ‘creak, rattle, crack’ (source of English crepitation [17] and decrepit, and probably also of craven), which passed into Old French as crever ‘burst, split’. From this was derived the noun crevace, borrowed into Middle English as crevace or crevisse. In modern French it developed into crevasse, which English reborrowed in the 19th century. => craven, crepitation, crevasse, decrepit
crevice (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak" (see raven); meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.
例文
1. He edged the tool into the crevice .
彼は工具**の割れ目を中に入れた。
2.And a roach spans a crevice in the floor.
ゴキブリが床の割れ目をよじ登った。
3.I saw a plant growing out of a crevice in the wall.
壁の隙間に草が生えているのを見た。
4.Striving for life in crevice is the realistic circumstances of centual China.
西部と東部の経済を闊歩しながら、「狭間の中で生存を求める」ことこそ中部経済の真の境遇である。
5.This paper deals with the crevice structure in boride layer.