Definition

1. Noun:
   • A crack or fissure: A narrow opening or line of breakage, often long and thin, caused by the splitting or breaking of a hard, non-elastic material like rock, concrete, or dried earth.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trận động đất để lại nhiều kẻ nứt trên mặt đất. (The earthquake left many cracks in the ground.)
  • Kẻ nứt trên tường ngày càng rộng ra. (The crack in the wall is getting wider.)
  • Nước rỉ ra từ kẻ nứt của vách đá. (Water seeped out from a fissure in the cliff face.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is primarily used for physical, structural cracks. It can be used metaphorically in literature or formal writing to describe a division or rift in a system, relationship, or society, though this is less common.
  • Sự bất đồng đã tạo ra một kẻ nứt trong liên minh. (The disagreement created a fissure within the alliance.)

Variants and Related Words

• Vết nứt (n): Also means crack or fissure. "Vết nứt" is often more general and can refer to the result of any cracking, while "kẻ nứt" can imply a longer, more linear crack.
• Nứt (v): to crack, to split.
  • Mặt đất nứt nẻ vì hạn hán. (The ground cracked due to drought.)

Synonyms

• Crack: A line on the surface of something where it has split without breaking apart.
• Fissure: A long, narrow opening or line of breakage, especially in rock.
• Split: A crack or division caused by splitting.

Related Idioms

• Nứt toác: to crack wide open, to split apart (emphasizing severity).
  • Bê tông nứt toác vì nhiệt độ. (The concrete cracked wide open because of the temperature.)

1. Crack, fissure