Difference between Fissure and Crack

What is the difference between Fissure and Crack?

Fissure as a verb is to split forming fissures. while Crack as a verb is to form cracks.

Fissure

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To split forming fissures.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a crack or opening, as in a rock

Crack

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.A narrow opening.A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.Any sharp sound.An opportunity to attempt something.vagina.The space between the buttocks.Conviviality; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company.Business/eventsA program, password or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.a meaningful chat.good fun. (See usage note re Scots sense).Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Highly trained and competent.Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To form cracks.To break apart under pressure.To become debilitated by psychological pressure.To yield under interrogation.To make a cracking sound.To change rapidly in register.To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.To make a sharply humorous comment.To make a crack or cracks in.To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.To strike forcefully.To open slightly.To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)To solve a difficult problem.To overcome a security system or a component.To cause to make a sharp sound.To tell (a joke).To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

Example sentence: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

We hope you now know whether to use Fissure or Crack in your sentence.

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