Word Meanings - FISSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole

Additional info about word: FISSURE

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. -- Fissure needle , a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. Knight. -- Fissure of rolando , the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum. -- Fissure of Sylvius , a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain. -- Fissure vein , a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. Raymond.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FISSURE)

• Aperture
• Opening
• gap
• chasm
• fissure
• cleft
• Interstice
• Chink
• interval
• interspace
• cranny
• crack
• opportunity
• space
• commencement
• initiation
• start
• inauguration
• hole
• chink
• beginning
• Rent
• Laceration
• rupture
• divulsion
• schism
• solution

Related words: (words related to FISSURE)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• APERTURE
  The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CLEFT
  from Cleave.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• RUPTURED
  Having a rupture, or hernia.
• CHINK
  A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.
• STARTISH
  Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• ISOCHASMIC
  Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• TWO-CLEFT
  Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.