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Definition: Chasm |
ChasmNoun1. A deep opening in the earth's surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chasm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Chasm \Chasm\, noun. [Latin expression chasma, Greek, from to grape, to open wide. See Chaos.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CHASM CHeap ASseMbler. A shareware assembler for MS-DOS. (1994-11-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Mining | A yawning hollow or rent, as in the Earth's surface; any wide and deepgap; a cleft; fissure. See also:abyss. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CHASM | English | Coventry Health and Safety Movement | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interval | Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha. |
Opening | Opening; aperture, apertness; hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation; chasm; (interval). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chasm |
| English words defined with "chasm": Breach of trust ♦ Chasmed, Chasmy ♦ gulf. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chasm": Rome's best Wealth is Patriotism ♦ Sela-hammahlekoth, Sela-hammah-lekoth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chasm": Isochasm. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | For I cannot fill the chasm (Fortress Around Yur Heart; performing artist: Sting) | |
Movie/TV Titles | On the Brink of the Chasm (1912) The Black Chasm (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Global mosaic of Mars. Visible in the center of this mosaic isthe largest known chasm in the solar system, Valles Marineris. Reproduced from Volume 14 of theMars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. Credit: NASA. |  | Coral reef chasm frames underwater photographer. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Venturing a little too near the Yawning Chasm, Grand Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Trenton chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dam of the Utica Light and Power Co., Trenton chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hotel Ausable Chasm, Ausable Chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rainbow Falls and R.R. bridge, Ausable Chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Pool, Ausable Chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | East from hotel, Ausable Chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Column Rocks from below, Ausable Chasm, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This chasm fate filled up. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | So much for the increased horrors of the chasm of Loch Fyne when emptied |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There is no more urgent need than to remedy this dangerous chasm. (references) | |
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| "Chasm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chasm" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 134 | 27,488 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "chasm": au Sable Chasm ♦ sea chasm ♦ the chasm yawned at his feet. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ausable chasm | 110 | ausable chasm new york | 5 |
chasm | 57 | black chasm | 5 |
chasm purgatory | 29 | au chasm sable | 4 |
chasm the rift | 13 | ausible chasm | 4 |
crossing the chasm | 12 | black cavern chasm | 4 |
chasm lake | 8 | chasm through walk | 3 |
crossing the quality chasm | 7 | chasm ecco | 3 |
ausable chasm ny | 5 | chasm pergatory | 3 |
chasm game | 5 | ausable chasm koa | 2 |
chasm group | 5 | chasm cheat | 2 |
chasm download | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "chasm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afgrond (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Albanian | prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), ndërprerje (break, breaking, cease, cessation, check, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, intercept, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, intersection, letup, outage, recess, suspension, truce), humnerë (abyss, gulf, precipice), hendek (channel, dike, ditch, Fosse, gap, gutter, kerb, moat, trench), çarje toke. (various references) | |
Arabic | فجوة (aperture, breach, break, cavity, chamber, crack, crevasse, crevice, discontinuity, fissure, gap, hiatus, hole, lacuna, opening), هوة (maw, pit), تباين (contrast, disparity, dissimilarity, inequality), صدع (breach, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fault, fissure, flaw, rent, rift, split), شقة الخلاف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бездна (abysm, abyss, depths, gap, gulf, precipice, the deep), пропаст (abyss, bathos, precipice), празнота (blankness, emptiness, idleness, sketchiness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, vanity, void). (various references) | |
Chinese | 裂痕 . (various references) | |
Czech | rokle (Glen, gorge, gully, ravine), propast (abysm, abyss, divide, gulf, yawn), prùrva (gap, gash). (various references) | |
Danish | afgrund (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Dutch | afgrond (abyss, gulf, jaws, maw, precipice). (various references) | |
Esperanto | montfendo (cleft, gorge, gully, ravine), abismo (abyss). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjallaskarð (cleft, gorge, gully, pass, ravine), avgrund (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرق بسیار(مج.), پرتگاه عظیم , وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Caesura, Cease, Deadlock, Gap, Hiatus, Interval, Jib, Paralysis, Pause, Standstill, Station, Stick, Suspension), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture). (various references) | |
Finnish | rotko (cleft, gorge, ravine), kuilu (abyss, cleft, gap, gorge, shaft). (various references) | |
French | gouffre. (various references) | |
Frisian | djipte (abyss, depth, gulf, precipice), ôfgrûn (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
German | spalte (break, chink, cleavage, cleft, col, column, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fudge, gap, hole, pillar, rift), abgrund (abysm, abyss, fovea, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Greek | βάραθρο (gulch), χάσμα (air gap, gap, gulf, hiatus, rift), άβυσσος (abyss, gulf). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ת"ום (abyss, depth, pit), בקיע (breach, chap, crack, cranny, crevice, fissile, fissure, hernia). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szakadék (abyss, beetling height, cleft, cove, deep, dell, drop-off, escarpment, gap, gourd, gulch, gulf, pit, precipice, ravine, scarp), űr (blank, emptiness, gap, space, vacancy). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hyldýpi (abyss, gulf, precipice), gjá (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perbedaan (contradiction, contrariety, contrast, difference, differentiation, discrimination, disparity, dissent, dissidence, distinction, divergence, diverification, variation), jurang (abyss, gulch, ravine). (various references) | |
Italian | abisso (abysm, abyss, deep, depth, fovea, gulf, pit, precipice), burrone (abyss, Canyon, gorge, gulch, gulf, gully, precipice, ravine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 谷" (dell, ravine, valley), 目 (crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, rift, split), 割目 (crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, rift, split), 割れ目 (crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, rift, split). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たにま (dell, ravine, valley), たにあい (dell, ravine, valley), われめ (crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, rift, split). (various references) | |
Manx | skort (cleft, cleft in rock, fissure, rent, rift), skaur, charvaal (abyss, divide, gulf). (various references) | |
Papiamen | precipicio (abyss, gulf, precipice), abismo (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asmchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abismo (abysm, abyss, deep, depths, gulf, pit, precipice, yawn). (various references) | |
Romanian | crãpãturã (breach, break, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, fissure, flaw, loophole, Nick, rent, rift, slit, slot, split, yawn), spãrturã (blank, breach, break, cranny, flaw, gap, leak, rent), prãpastie (abysm, abyss, chaos, depth, disaster, gulf, hollow, precipice, ravine, scar, steep), lacunã (blank, gap, hiatus, Lacuna), deosebire (contradistinction, difference, differentiation, discrimination, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, otherness, separation), abis (abysm, abyss, gulf, hell, precipice, ravine, the bottomless pit), întrerupere (abruption, arrest, breach, catch, cessation, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuity, disjunction, intermission, interruption, interval, lapse, lock out, pause, stop, stoppage, stopping, suspense). (various references) | |
Russian | бездна (abysm, abyss, deep, gulf, precipice), пропасть (abysm, abyss, be gone, be lost, deep, disappear, go to the bad, gulf, precipice, wall of partition). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | provalija (profound), ponor (abyss, pit), jaz (abyss, gulf, hiatus, trough), bezdan (abyss, bottomless, deep, infinite, precipice, profound). (various references) | |
Spanish | abismo (abysm, abyss, cleft, coulee, couloir, crevice, deepness, gulf, hell, pit, precipice, Slough, steep), precipicio (abyss, cliff, drop, gulf, precipice), despeñadero (abyss, gulf, precipice). (various references) | |
Swedish | svalg (abyss, fauces, pharynx, throat, yawn), klyfta (cleft, fissure, gap, gorge, gully, ravine, section, segment), avgrund (abyss, gulf, hell, pit, precipice). (various references) | |
Turkish | yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slit, slot, split, tear, vent), uçurum (abysm, abyss, bluff, cliff, crag, gap, gulf, precipice, scarp, steep), kanyon (Canyon), duygusal farklılık, boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), ara (break, breather, breathing space, bye-, cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, distance, gap, interim, interlocutory, interlude, intermediary, intermediate, intermission, interregnum, interruption, Interspace, interval, lull, mediate, meso-, recess, recessional, recreation, respite, secondary, space, spacing, spread, stand down, surcease, time lag, time out, truce, 'tween). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розрив (avulsion, breach, breaking, bursting, denunciation, dissolution, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear), глибока ущелина, безодня (abysm, abyss, deep, depth, precipice, profundity, yawn), прогалина (balk, blank, gap, non-sequence, vacuum, void), провалля (chute), пропуск (hiatus, non-sequence, omission, out, overlook, skip, vacancy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chỗ trũng lớn, tư tưởng (idea), lỗ nẻ sâu vực thẳm, kẽ nứt sâu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | chasma. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abruptum, abyssus, chasma, crater, fauces, profunda, profunde, profundi, profundis, profunditas, profundo, profundum, specubus, specum, voragine, voraginem, voragines, voraginibus, vorago. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chasm": chasmal, chasmed, chasmic, chasms, chasmy. (additional references) | |
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"Chasm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cahem, Cahm, casm, Chaam, chaim, Chakma, chalm, chamf, chams, chas, Chasa, chash, Chashma, chasi, chasim, chask, Chasma, chaso, chasp, chassy, chaz, cheam, Cheams, Chelsom, chesh, chhish, chish, chism, chisom, chs, clasm, Ickham, Kasim, Khashm, shasm, Shazam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chasm" (pronounced ka"zum) |
| 4 | -a" z u m | phantasm, spasm. |
| 3 | -z u m | absenteeism, absolutism, abolitionism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, bosom, botulism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microcosm, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, neoplasm, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, orgasm, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, prism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, cannibalism, capitalism, careerism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, cytoplasm, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, enthusiasm, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, iconoclasm, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, ism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, sarcasm, satanism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chams, machs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-m-s" | |
-1 letter: cams, cash, cham, hams, mach, macs, mash, scam, sham. | |
-2 letters: ash, cam, ham, has, mac, mas, sac, sha. | |
-3 letters: ah, am, as, ha, hm, ma, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-m-s" | |
+1 letter: champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chiasm, maches, machos, mochas, sachem, samech, schema, sumach. | |
+2 letters: chacmas, chamise, chamiso, chamois, charism, chasmal, chasmed, chasmic, chiasma, chiasmi, chiasms, chimars, chimlas, chlamys, chrisma, chromas, cumshaw, drachms, manches, marches, matches, mesarch, sachems, samechs, schemas, schmalz, schmear, stomach, sumachs, tachism, yashmac. | |
+3 letters: archaism, becharms, brechams, camphols, camphors, camshaft, cashmere, chamades, chambers, chamfers, chamises, chamisos, chammies, champacs, champaks, champers, charisma, charisms, charmers, chessman, chiasmal, chiasmas, chiasmic, chiasmus, chiliasm, chimeras, chloasma, chrismal, cumshaws, drachmas, hammocks, hematics, ischemia, machetes, machines, machismo, machrees, machzors, manchets, marchers, marchesa, marchese, marchesi, mastiche, matchers, matchups, mismatch, mispatch, misteach, mochilas, monarchs, moschate, mustache, nomarchs, sachemic, scampish, schemata, schmaltz, schmalzy, schmears, shamanic, shamrock, stomachs, stomachy, tachisme, tachisms, yashmacs. | |
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