单词 | fissure |
释义 | fissuren. 1. a. A cleft or opening (usually rather long and narrow) made by splitting, cleaving, or separation of parts; ‘a narrow chasm where a breach has been made’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > chink, crevice, or cleft chinec888 cleftc1374 crevice1382 crannyc1440 crack1530 crannel1534 chink1552 crank1552 gash1575 chaum1601 chawn1601 fissure1609 case1778 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > a division formed by cleaving cleftc1374 cleavingc1400 scissure?a1425 clefture1540 hag1568 scission1578 clovec1593 split1598 cliff1605 fissure1609 dispartment1672 cleave1874 split1875 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Fissure, rift, cleft, or pertition. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 235 Of but few gallons of water forced through a narrow Fissure, he could raise a mist in his Garden. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 6 Those Strata were divided by parallel Fissures. 1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 166 I see..The gaping Fissures to receive the Rains. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xiv. 61 Each part, except the gold, is rent throughout; And from the fissure tears distil. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 112 The vast fissure of the Jordan valley. b. figurative (of non-material cleavage). ΚΠ 1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law §61. 150 A dialectic fissure, as it were, was originated. 1890 Spectator 5 July They..were..divided by too deep a social fissure from the Indians whom they were expected to convert. 2. spec. a. Pathology. A narrow solution of continuity produced by injury or by ulceration; also, an incomplete fracture of a bone, without separation of parts. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > separation of tissues fissurec1400 solution of continuity?1541 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > fractures brucheOE fissurec1400 fracture?1541 compound fracture1543 fraction1587 attrition1634 effracture1634 flap-fracture1658 complicated fracture1745 abduction1753 star fracture1840 stress fracture1911 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 270 Whanne þe bowels falliþ adoun þoruȝ a fissure .i. a brekynge. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. [It cureth] the Fissures in the seat. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 379 By a Fall or Blow the Scull may be fissured or fractured..this Fracture or Fissure may be under the Contusion, or [etc.]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fissure..In Surgery a kind of Fracture, or breaking of a Bone, that happens in the length of it. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 249 The best Authors..divide the injuries, of which the skull is susceptible, into five kinds, as a fissure, a fracture, [etc.]. 1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 49 Fissures are linear wounds having their seat in the epidermis or corium. b. Anatomy, Botany etc. A natural cleft or opening in an organ or part; e.g. one of the sulci or depressions which separate the convolutions of the brain. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > lobe or division clefta1398 fissure1656 lacinia1668 segment1713 lobe1731 earlet1787 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > groove or furrow gutter1553 scissure1607 rut1615 fissure1656 sulcus1744 groove1789 canaliculation1797 fossule1803 fossula1811 furrow1819 sulcation1852 sulculus1859 vallecula1859 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fissure, a cleft, a division, a parted leaf. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. ii. 101 In other Animals the Fissure of the Pupil is erect. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. viii. 121 The mouth of the earth worm consists of a small longitudinal fissure. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. i. 10 Bischoff..admits that every chief fissure and fold in the brain of man has its analogy in that of the orang. 1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fissure..in Botany, the line of cleavage of seed vessels and anthers, and the clefts of a divided leaf. c. Heraldry. A diminutive of the bend sinister, being one fourth of its width. †Also, a riband, or eighth part of a bend (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > ribbon fissure1486 riband1562 ribbon1704 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > band crossing shield diagonally > running from top right to bottom left > of quarter width bastonc1425 fissure1486 staff1486 batoon1562 fillet1572 baton1816 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. E vij b Thys fyssure is calde a staffe, and in french it is cald a baston. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 110 b A ribande..conteineth in bredeth, the eight parte of ye bende..This ys also called a Fissure. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. v. 53 It is commonly called a Fissure..in that it cuts or rents the Coat-armour in twaine. 1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Fissure is the fourth part of the bend sinister and by some called a staff. 3. The action of cleaving or splitting asunder; the state of being cleft; cleavage. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > action, fact, or state of being cleft fissure1633 diffission1727 fissuration1864 cleavage1867 split1898 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 11) 228 The apertion of heaven..in these places..signifies..a visible fissure of heaven. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxviii. 232 On striking the surface with a walking-pole..lines of fissure radiated from the point of impact. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as fissure theory. ΚΠ 1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. ix. 281 I had heard the Via Mala cited as a conspicuous illustration of the fissure theory. C2. fissure claim n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1894 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 6/1 The reef..is reported..to be a true fissure claim. fissure-eruption n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [noun] > fissure eruption fissure-eruption1882 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. 198 In many parts of the earth..there have been periods..when the crust was rent into innumerable fissures over areas thousands of square miles in extent, and when the molten rock..welled out from the vents, and flooded enormous tracts of country... Of these ‘fissure-eruptions’,..no examples have occurred within the times of human history, unless some of the lava-floods of Iceland can be so regarded. fissure-needle n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fissure-needle, a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. fissure vein n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 133 Fissure-vein, a fissure in the earth's crust filled with mineral. 1886 York Herald 4 Aug. 1/4 As usual in such fissure veins..as the workings increase in depth the lode will considerably increase both in thickness and richness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fissurev. 1. transitive. To make a fissure or fissures in; to cleave, split. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)] to-cleavec888 cleavea1100 forcleavec1290 shidec1315 rivec1330 sheara1340 carvec1374 slivea1400 thrusche1483 porfend1490 splet1530 share?1566 spleet1585 splint1591 split1595 diverberate1609 fissure1656 spall1841 balkanize1942 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 173 When the inward place is Fissured, the outward remaining unhurt. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 379 By a Fall or Blow the Scull may be fissured or fractured..this Fracture or Fissure may be under the Contusion, or [etc.]. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xlvii The French cannon had fissured the building from top to bottom. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xi. 202 By that convulsion the region around Natchez was..much fissured. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 237 The strata would be fissured and displaced. 2. intransitive. To break into, or open in, fissures; to become cleft or split. Derivatives ˈfissuring n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [adjective] cleaving1626 splitting1725 fissuring1830 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > becoming cleft or split splittingc1595 cleaving1725 fissuring1830 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 419 The rending and fissuring of the ground. 1854 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 49/2 The process of fissuring or segmentation. 1862 G. P. Scrope Volcanos (ed. 2) 47 The fissuring effect upon solid rocks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400v.1656 |
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