(n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
(n.) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
(v. i.) To crack into, or become full of, crannies.
(v. i.) To haunt, or enter by, crannies.
(a.) Quick; giddy; thoughtless.
Example Sentences:
(1) ForzaVista is back, but it's been hugely expanded allowing players to poke around every nook and cranny of every car in the game.
(2) And we will extend this principle of transparency to every nook and cranny of politics and public life, because it's one of the quickest and easiest ways to transfer power to the powerless and prevent waste, exploitation and abuse.
(3) "He is very seized by the need to leverage legacy from every nook and cranny of the project.
(4) Hidden in nooks, crannies and side-roads of the City of Angels, there are, contrary to popular perception, numerous family-run guesthouses, intimate boutique hotels and even quirky little B&BS.
(5) The release this week of several detailed files on Hobsbawm and Hill is a reminder of just how deeply the cold war penetrated into every nook and cranny of British academic life.
(6) Adults £85 per day, children (aged 13-17) £60 per day, overnight kayak camping expeditions an additional £15 per person per night Eilean Donan, Dornie Photograph: Alamy Clamber around the ramparts and explore the dimly lit nooks and crannies of one of the most romantic castles in Scotland.
(7) Bright affectionately remembers all the "nooks and crannies" of the 1820s house, but has no regrets about the move.
(8) It seems every valley and flatland, each nook and cranny, has been turned into a plot for some sort of crop.
(9) We’d scour the red sandstone nooks and limestone crannies to find them.
(10) Her hair is windblown, her black coat is flapping and her piercing gaze finds a problem in every nook and cranny.
(11) It now teeters over the favela like a Gaudí castle, full of stairways and corridors and hidden nooks and crannies, with panoramic views over Guanabara Bay from its ample terraces.
(12) There was a surreal atmosphere, with tents glowing in the dark, and the noise of insect life coming from every nook and cranny.
(13) Since founding her company in 1973, she had developed a style of dance theatre that took audiences into the darkest, strangest crannies of the human psyche.
(14) 798 Arts Zone and the series of studios beyond it constitute a cranny where old streets and buildings have been spared by the bulldozer and turned into a kind of trendy theme park in which the authorities seem not only to permit but – unusually for them – encourage cultural activity.
(15) In environmental terms, public toilets are obviously breeding grounds for germs in cities, and Cutler says he'd like to see "ways of improving environments so they become easier to clean, easier to manage – novel surfaces and structures, so there aren't so many nooks and crannies in public areas.
(16) Agriculture has long existed in the nooks and crannies of urban life.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nathaniel Samson, 25, Hertfordshire Rating: 4 out of 5 – ‘Any nook or cranny can now be Pallet Town’ Professor Willow holds out his hand and I’m immediately back in Pallet Town.
(18) The homeless, who seem to have filled every spare nook and cranny in Mogadishu, live with this every day.
(19) Whatabouttery prefers a narrative centred on the evils of the bogeyman rightwing “prime minister for women”, rather than acknowledging sexist behaviour is rife in almost every nook and cranny of society, including places occupied by the political left.
(20) Be sure to check the nooks and crannies for delights from limited-edition manga T-shirts to art badges and other experimental fare.
Crevice
Definition:
(n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
(v. t.) To crack; to flaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crevice corrosion propagation for gamma 2-free vs. gamma 2-containing amalgams was characterized by lower acceleration and maximum rates during the most dynamic period.
(2) Similarly, significant correlations were found between the individual tissue reaction scores and crevice corrosion scores from the 201 individual sites, again for all devices and for the asymptomatic and symptomatic removal groups.
(3) The objective of this study was to determine the in vitro corrosion products that resulted from crevice corrosion of low- and high-copper dental amalgams.
(4) The present study, along with that of the Ser82 variant protein (Louie et al., 1988b), clearly establishes the link between dielectric constant within the heme crevice and reduction potential.
(5) An iodine preparation removed 95% of accessible organisms, but about 20% of bacteria were protected by follicles, crevices, and lipids.
(6) The reaction of the Paracoccus oxidase with its own soluble cytochrome c550, which has a highly negative hemisphere on the side of the molecule away from the heme crevice, has different properties from those seen in its reaction with bovine cytochrome c. However the properties all change to be like those with bovine cytochrome c on addition of poly-L-lysine.
(7) Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) are predominant cells in the gingival crevice and saliva, and may play an important role in oral bacteria.
(8) By exploiting this bat's preference to roost in crevices, we could separately measure O2 uptake during ventilatory bouts and apneic periods using a flow-through metabolic chamber with a small dead space volume and short time constant.
(9) This implies that binding crevices for two chlorophylls and half of peridinins (four to five) are located at some distance from each other.
(10) The susceptibility of the 316 L CW austenitic stainless steel to pitting and relative resistance to crevice corrosion were measured by cyclic anodic polarization tests.
(11) Modification of lysines 8, 13, 25, 27, 72, 79, or 87 surrounding the heme crevice was found to significantly lower the rate of reaction, while modification of lysines in other regions had no effect.
(12) The introduction of an extra amino acid residue and of other changes in the crevice where the heme group is located is the likely cause of the instability of this hemoglobin variant.
(13) Since the pH of the gingival crevice increases from below neutrality in health to above pH 8 in disease, we decided to investigate the effect of environmental pH on the growth and enzyme activity of Bacteroides gingivalis W50.
(14) However, with a spin label previously shown to project to the lip on the crevice a clear N--F transition as well as the subsequent acid expansion are observed.
(15) On the atrioventricular valves, the deposition in this crevice was most severe on the outflow surface adjacent to the minor flow orifice.
(16) A new crevice geometry with elliptically shaped walls is introduced which reduces the height of the crevice needed for bubble emergence and relaxes the constraints for the stability of gas nuclei.
(17) Corrosion degradation of amalgam fillings is due mainly to localized corrosion cells in pores and crevices.
(18) It is believed to impart hydrophobicity while it could also determine the microgeometry of any crevices vital for bubble formation or retention.
(19) Gingival fluid was sampled from the orifices of the gingival crevices in five male subjects with clinically healthy gingiva.
(20) These bands can be assigned to modes which include strong contributions of vibrations largely localized in the propionate-carrying pyrrole rings A and D. This indicates structural differences in the deeper part of the heme crevice, remote from the mutation site.