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cranny

/kran-ee/US // ˈkræn i //UK // (ˈkrænɪ) //

裂缝,裂口,裂缝处,裂縫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cran·nies.

    • : a small, narrow opening in a wall, rock, etc.; chink; crevice; fissure: They searched every nook and cranny for the missing ring.
    • : a small out-of-the-way place or obscure corner; nook.

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Examples

  • Don’t overlook the tiny nooks and crannies of food compartments.

  • “We’re busy getting Bob into every nook and cranny,” Kowalski said in an interview.

  • Additional imaging with a 3D or 4D Doppler would allow a physician to evaluate the nooks and crannies of the fetus and the cord.

  • While most highly-automated warehouses are built around machines from the start, Stretch will be able to roll into corners and crannies not designed for automation and get to work.

  • Keep going around the artichoke, filling every nook and cranny.

  • Rawashda is holding his laptop as he points out every nook and cranny of his studio apartment.

  • Unlike the three-walled sets of Hollywood soundstages, this is made for every nook and cranny to be filmed.

  • Those scenes that are just in every nook and cranny at the Grand Ole Opry, that to me is the beauty of the show.

  • Mousack is piped into every nook and cranny of the damn ship: the elevators, the restaurants, the hallways.

  • The old miner set the machine working, and the light flashed into every nook and cranny of the subterranean cavern.

  • There was not one nook or cranny into which that ruthless self-knowledge could not throw its cruel glare.

  • It was his theory of Duty, expanded till it penetrated 57 every cranny of the individual soul.

  • There was no cranny in the rocks too small for them to reconnoiter with caution.

  • Are we wise to hide from life, like a lizard in a cranny of a wall?