Fissure
noun
A long, narrow crack in something.
A deep fissure in the ground opened up during the earthquake.
Often appears as...
- form a fissure
- deep fissure
noun
A separation or disagreement between two things or persons.
The fissure in their friendship started when they argued about money.
Often appears as...
- emotional fissure
- deep fissure
noun
A crack or split in the skin.
She had a painful fissure on her hand due to the dry weather.
Often appears as...
- anal fissure
- skin fissure
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Technical
noun
A cleft or groove in an organ or tissue, especially in the brain.
The MRI revealed a small fissure in his brain tissue.
Often appears as...
- brain fissure
- cerebral fissure
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A long, narrow crack in something.
A deep fissure in the ground opened up during the earthquake.
Often appears as...
- form a fissure
- deep fissure
noun
A separation or disagreement between two things or persons.
The fissure in their friendship started when they argued about money.
Often appears as...
- emotional fissure
- deep fissure
noun
A crack or split in the skin.
She had a painful fissure on her hand due to the dry weather.
Often appears as...
- anal fissure
- skin fissure
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A cleft or groove in an organ or tissue, especially in the brain.
The MRI revealed a small fissure in his brain tissue.
Often appears as...
- brain fissure
- cerebral fissure
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical rupture
Use 'fissure' to describe physical breaks, emphasizing they're narrow and elongated.
The vase had a hairline fissure running down its side.
Pro Tip 2/2Geographical feature
'Fissure' can describe cracks caused by geological events, like earthquakes.
Geologists studied the fissure that formed in the valley.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical rupture
Use 'fissure' to describe physical breaks, emphasizing they're narrow and elongated.
The vase had a hairline fissure running down its side.
Pro Tip 2/2Geographical feature
'Fissure' can describe cracks caused by geological events, like earthquakes.
Geologists studied the fissure that formed in the valley.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical rupture
Use 'fissure' to describe physical breaks, emphasizing they're narrow and elongated.
The vase had a hairline fissure running down its side.
Pro Tip 2/2Geographical feature
'Fissure' can describe cracks caused by geological events, like earthquakes.
Geologists studied the fissure that formed in the valley.
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Why helmets don't...
Well, one thing that you'll notice in the human brain that is different than other animals is we have these two very large lobes. We have the right brain and the left brain. And the key thing to notice in this figure here is that right down the center of the right brain and the left brain there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain.
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How city mayors are...
racial justice work we have to do what's happening with our economy um but in particular right now i think that mayors are facing you know this triple threat of covid of the economic dislocation and then ongoing social fissures most notably here in this country but around the world around
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Onward: Searching for...
its toll i'ma gonna walk over here to the bottom of the fissure on that end Wow and it's a little bit steep over there so we want to be very careful wool flowing underwear plus like some cotton you said avoid cotton right be sure close it all the way it takes a long time it could
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Protecting the ocean for...
more filling our waters it is a truly incredible and beautiful place but it is also facing an oceanic crisis my community the municipality of valuing has long seen the problem people in my town are mostly farmers and fishers these fissures and their families depend
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Fire Alarm Deadline PIPE...
there each of these boxes needs to be precisely placed to hold fixtures in areas that won't be built for another seven months control line so make sure we make our layout right make sure that when it's said and done our fissures are straight
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Planet or Plastic? PIPE...
lightweight materials primarily from insurer Fisher's but the big problems are the industrial scale fissures that supply 90% of the quote seafood sea life to this country and around the world it's this large-scale extraction of
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A needle in countless...
We find them in fissures of rock miles beneath our feet, in boiling waters of the ocean floor, in acidic waters of thermal springs, and in cloud droplets miles above our heads. These so-called extremophiles aren't rare.
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Sightseeing on Mars PIPE...
beyond sheer scenic splendor deeper than the canyon itself is the mystery surrounding its formation this giant fissure once filled by mighty Lakes has been scoured by floods of
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Why your doctor should...
But I knew that epidemics emerge along the fissures of our society, reflecting not only biology, but more importantly patterns of marginalization, exclusion,
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Birds of Paradise -...
here in an umbrella thorn tree in Tanzania Africa some fissures lovebirds are looking for a nice hollow in which to nest and raise their young the love
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Why helmets don't...
Well, one thing that you'll notice in the human brain that is different than other animals is we have these two very large lobes. We have the right brain and the left brain. And the key thing to notice in this figure here is that right down the center of the right brain and the left brain there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain.
Video examples
How city mayors are...
racial justice work we have to do what's happening with our economy um but in particular right now i think that mayors are facing you know this triple threat of covid of the economic dislocation and then ongoing social fissures most notably here in this country but around the world around
Video examples
Onward: Searching for...
its toll i'ma gonna walk over here to the bottom of the fissure on that end Wow and it's a little bit steep over there so we want to be very careful wool flowing underwear plus like some cotton you said avoid cotton right be sure close it all the way it takes a long time it could
Video examples
Protecting the ocean for...
more filling our waters it is a truly incredible and beautiful place but it is also facing an oceanic crisis my community the municipality of valuing has long seen the problem people in my town are mostly farmers and fishers these fissures and their families depend
Video examples
Fire Alarm Deadline PIPE...
there each of these boxes needs to be precisely placed to hold fixtures in areas that won't be built for another seven months control line so make sure we make our layout right make sure that when it's said and done our fissures are straight
Video examples
Planet or Plastic? PIPE...
lightweight materials primarily from insurer Fisher's but the big problems are the industrial scale fissures that supply 90% of the quote seafood sea life to this country and around the world it's this large-scale extraction of
Video examples
A needle in countless...
We find them in fissures of rock miles beneath our feet, in boiling waters of the ocean floor, in acidic waters of thermal springs, and in cloud droplets miles above our heads. These so-called extremophiles aren't rare.
Video examples
Sightseeing on Mars PIPE...
beyond sheer scenic splendor deeper than the canyon itself is the mystery surrounding its formation this giant fissure once filled by mighty Lakes has been scoured by floods of
Video examples
Why your doctor should...
But I knew that epidemics emerge along the fissures of our society, reflecting not only biology, but more importantly patterns of marginalization, exclusion,
Video examples
Birds of Paradise -...
here in an umbrella thorn tree in Tanzania Africa some fissures lovebirds are looking for a nice hollow in which to nest and raise their young the love
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Jessica Henwick
English Actress
I went snorkeling between tectonic plates in Iceland's Silfra fissure in the winter. You have to wear thermal layers and a wet suit and what's called a 'teddy-bear suit' so you don't die of hypothermia. My lips still went blue. That was an experience that I will carry with me for the rest of my life - so beautiful and so quiet.
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Rachel Joyce
British Author
Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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Rick Perlstein
American Historian
America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.
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Said Nursi
Turkish Theologian
If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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Elfriede Jelinek
American Playwright
As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.
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Henry A. Wallace
American Vice President
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
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Mike Barnicle
American Journalist
Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.
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Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
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Jessica Henwick
English Actress
I went snorkeling between tectonic plates in Iceland's Silfra fissure in the winter. You have to wear thermal layers and a wet suit and what's called a 'teddy-bear suit' so you don't die of hypothermia. My lips still went blue. That was an experience that I will carry with me for the rest of my life - so beautiful and so quiet.
Quote examples
Rachel Joyce
British Author
Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
Quote examples
Rick Perlstein
American Historian
America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.
Quote examples
Said Nursi
Turkish Theologian
If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
Quote examples
Elfriede Jelinek
American Playwright
As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.
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Henry A. Wallace
American Vice President
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Quote examples
Mike Barnicle
American Journalist
Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.
Quote examples
Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
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