Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fissure
IPA transcription: [f'ɪʃɚ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fissure
    Meaning: break into fissures or fine cracks
Usage examples
  • Beneath my head the others are dragged down Who have preceded me in simony, Flattened along the fissure of the rock.
  • Which will be more strongly altered, the rocks about a closed dike in which lava began to cool as soon as it filled the fissure, or the rocks about a dike which opened on the surface and through which the molten rock flowed for some time?
  • The retina, or expansion of the optic nerve, is most sensitive to the stimulus of light; hence, a well-marked ciliary muscle contracts the pupil to a mere vertical fissure during the day, while in the dark, the pupil dilates enormously, and lets in as much light as possible.
  • Now fissures, wherever they occur, form the trunk channels of the underground circulation. Water descends from the surface along these rifts; it moves laterally from either side to the fissure plane, just as ground water seeps through the surrounding rocks from every direction to a well; and it ascends through these natural water ways as in an artesian well, whenever they intersect an aquifer in which water is under hydrostatic pressure.