A cinder-and-spatter cone is building at fissure 8 as the cone continues to feed a lava flow that reaches the ocean at Kapoho during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii.
Source: tatoeba (7042902)
Fissure
//ˈfɪʃ.ə//
Synonyms for "fissure" (221 found)
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cleuchcloughcolcome apartcome unstuckconvolutioncorpus callosumcorpus striatumcouleecouloircrannycrevassecutcut awaycut in twocut offcut opencwmdefiledell
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hewhiatushindbrainhippocampusholehypothalamusinciseincisioninterimintermissioninterruptionintervaljigsawjointklooflacunalancelay openleaklenticular nucleus
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letuplimbic lobelittle brainlobelullmantlemedulla oblongatameningesmesencephalonmetencephalonmidbrainmoatmyelencephalonneopalliumnotchnullahoccipital lobeopeopenopen upopeningoptic chiasmpalliumpareparietal lobepartpasspassagepausepia materpineal bodypituitary bodyponspruneravinerendrentreticular systemrhombencephalonriftrimeripriverupturesawscaleschismscissorscissureseamseparateseverslashsliceslitslotsnapsnipsplintersplitspreadspread outspringspring a leakspring openstartsubthalamussulcussundersuspensionswing opentapteartear opentelencephalontemporal lobethalamusthrow opentrenchvalleyventventriclevermisvoidwadiwhite matterwhittle
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7 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥωχμός noun (crack or opening)
Arabic
2 entries- شَقّ noun (crack or opening)
- صَدْع noun (crack or opening)
Armenian
1 entries- ճաք noun (crack or opening)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- yarıq noun (crack or opening)
- çat noun (crack or opening)
- çatlaq noun (crack or opening)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пукнатина noun (crack or opening)
- цепнатина noun (crack or opening)
- пропукам verb (to split)
- пропуквам verb (to split)
Catalan
2 entries- fissura noun (crack or opening)
- fissura noun (anatomic groove)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 裂 noun (anatomic groove)
- 裂縫 /裂缝 noun (crack or opening)
Danish
2 entries- revne noun (crack or opening)
- sprække noun (crack or opening)
Dutch
1 entries- spleet noun (crack or opening)
Esperanto
1 entries- fendo noun (crack or opening)
Finnish
4 entries- fissuura noun (crack or opening)
- halkeama noun (crack or opening)
- vako noun (anatomic groove)
- halkeilla verb (to split)
French
1 entries- fissure noun (crack or opening)
Galician
4 entries- cieiro noun (anatomic groove)
- degresa noun (anatomic groove)
- fisura noun (crack or opening)
- granipela noun (crack or opening)
German
4 entries- Chlack noun (crack or opening)
- Riss noun (crack or opening)
- Spalte noun (crack or opening)
- rissig werden verb (to split)
Indonesian
2 entries- keretakan noun (crack or opening)
- meretakkan verb (to split)
Ingrian
1 entries- lonka noun (crack or opening)
Irish
1 entries- gág noun (crack or opening)
Japanese
2 entries- 割れ目 noun (crack or opening)
- 裂け目 noun (crack or opening)
Latin
2 entries- fissura noun (crack or opening)
- rīma noun (crack or opening)
Macedonian
3 entries- пукна́тина noun (crack or opening)
- ра́сцеп noun (crack or opening)
- цепна́тина noun (crack or opening)
Malayalam
1 entries- വിള്ളൽ noun (crack or opening)
Māori
1 entries- piere noun (crack or opening)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- qelîş noun (crack or opening)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آرالق noun (crack or opening)
- چاك noun (crack or opening)
Persian
4 entries- رخنه noun (crack or opening)
- شکاف noun (crack or opening)
- فیسور noun (anatomic groove)
- چاک noun (crack or opening)
Polish
1 entries- szczelina noun (crack or opening)
Portuguese
1 entries- fissura noun (crack or opening)
Romanian
2 entries- crăpătură noun (crack or opening)
- fisură noun (crack or opening)
Russian
2 entries- расще́лина noun (crack or opening)
- тре́щина noun (crack or opening)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- rascep noun (crack or opening)
- расцеп noun (crack or opening)
Slovak
4 entries- prasklina noun (crack or opening)
- puklina noun (crack or opening)
- trhlina noun (crack or opening)
- škára noun (crack or opening)
Spanish
2 entries- fisura noun (crack or opening)
- grieta noun (crack or opening)
Swedish
3 entries- fissur noun (anatomic groove)
- rämna noun (crack or opening)
- spricka noun (crack or opening)
Turkish
3 entries- fissür noun (anatomic groove)
- yarık noun (crack or opening)
- çatlak noun (crack or opening)
Ukrainian
3 entries- борозна noun (anatomic groove)
- тріщина noun (crack or opening)
- щілина noun (crack or opening)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Steam rises from cracks in the road shortly before a fissure opened up on Kaupili Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision, May 4, 2018, in Pahoa, Hawaii, in this image released by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Source: tatoeba (7042927)
After Miller's Dale Junction, the main Derby-Manchester line crosses the Wye for the last time and turns north-west up Great Rocks Dale, a natural fissure several miles long.
Source: wiktionary
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