| 单词 | cranny |
| 释义 | cranny (once / 4598 pages) n A cranny is a little crack or narrow opening, Many cats like to settle themselves into any cranny they can find. A rock wall is full of crannies where you can fit your fingers and feet as you climb up, while a tree's crackly bark provides crannies for insects to hide in. It's pretty common to see the word cranny accompanied by nook: "When you vacuum the living room, don't forget about all the little nooks and crannies!" Cranny is a diminutive of the Old French cran, "notch or fissure," from crener, "to split." WORD FAMILYcranny: crannies USAGE EXAMPLESInside, he said, were two floors with a huge open space on the first floor with lots of nooks and crannies. Los Angeles Times(Dec 04, 2016) Heightening a visitor’s attentiveness to otherwise incidental details, Miller reveals a capacity to transform the nooks and crannies of a composition into unexpected wonders. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) The consequences are unbridled executive growth into every cranny of commerce and society, and a bystander Congress. Wall Street Journal(Nov 25, 2016) 1n a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall) Hyper hole an opening into or through something 2n a long narrow depression in a surface Syn|Hyper chap, crack, crevice, fissure depression, impression, imprint a concavity in a surface produced by pressing |
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