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# fissure

«fissure» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, narrow crack, especially in rock or the ground** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a fissure, fissures)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fissure is a long, narrow crack, especially in rock or the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#m1)

2) In the body a fissure is a natural groove, such as a fold in the brain, or a small painful crack in the skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#m2)

3) A fissure can also mean a split or disagreement between people in a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons it is a crack where lava comes out of a volcano (a fissure eruption) or where earthquakes split the ground. Phrases: «a fissure in the rock», «volcanic fissure», «fissure eruption».

### examples

- Lava poured out of a long fissure in the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x1)
- The climber put her hand into a fissure in the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x2)
- After the earthquake a fissure opened across the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x3)
- In Iceland some volcanoes erupt from fissures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x4)
- Water seeped through the fissures in the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x5)
- The brain has deep fissures and folds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x6)
- A fissure grew between the two friends after the argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x7)
- Never go near fissures on a volcano; hot gas can come out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x8)
- He walked and walked, and came to a hill: in that hill was a fissure, and in the fissure stood a hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/#x9)

### note

Countable. Say «FISH-er». A fissure is longer and deeper than a little crack. Not to be confused with «fission», the splitting of atoms.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fissure» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fissure/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.