Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hollow; a hole.
- n. A hollow area within the body: a sinus cavity.
- n. A pitted area in a tooth caused by caries.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hollow place; a hollow; a void or empty space in a body: as, the abdominal cavity; the thoracic cavity; the cavity of the mouth.
- n. The state of being hollow; hollowness.
- n. In horticulture See basin, 12.
Wiktionary
- n. A hole or hollow depression.
- n. A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
- n. dentistry A soft area in a decayed tooth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Hollowness.
- n. A hollow place; a hollow.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- n. soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth
- n. (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
- n. space that is surrounded by something
Etymologies
- From Late Latin cavitas, from Latin cavus ("hollow"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos, from root Proto-Indo-European *ḱówH- (Wiktionary)
- French cavité, from Late Latin cavitās, from Latin cavus, hollow; see keuə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Pour the still clear soap into your mold until the cavity is about 2/3 of the way full”
“This cavity is a real help to extract the victim and also provides 150 Liters of air to breath if you are buried.”
“But police had been searching the backyard where they found what they call a cavity, where they believe human remains had been found and had been burned even.”
“This abnormality, which occurs as the fetus is forming, is an opening in the diaphragm (the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity) that allows abdominal organs to move into the chest.”
“The animal could be fatally wounded but may bleed internally untill the chest cavity is full.”
I am a new hunter, hunting only 4 seasons. I took my first deer last year.
“The lung cavity is nothing but soup! ken. mcloud said it best!”
What is the deal with all the talk about tiny calibers and big game?
“Any object in this cavity is effectively invisible.”
“While further testing showed no signs of chromosomal or heart defects, the result of an ultrasound indicated that baby Laura had a left congenital diaphragmatic hernia, a hole in the diaphragm (the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity), which allows some of the abdominal organs to move up into the chest cavity.”
“The reason it's so hard to judge the chest cavity is that big hump on their shoulders.”
“But the Mini Pineapple Upside Down Cake Pan pictured above trumps that because not only does it have a ring just the right size for a round of pineapple, but each cavity is pineapple shaped, complete with leaves on top.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cavity’.
-
SCIE - graph theory
morphism, preorder, diagram, vector, quiver, functor, ancestor, successor, parent, simple, source, embedding and 423 more...
-
"That is NOT a Christmas word!" Part ...
Open list! Have at! (Inspired—or was that inspissated?—by my other list from 2007, seen here.) Except for the honorary first addition (thanks sionnach), please try to add only words you hear in...
casu marzu, uranist, rape, shin-kicking, broken darlings, forcible egg-nog ..., pubic, smell it, cavity, diarrhea, octopus, touch your mustard and 40 more...
-
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
-
snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
-
mango22's Words
avalanche, apple, arrividerci, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, beloved, calm, cataclysmic, catastrophe, coat and 143 more...
-
sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
-
Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
-
my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
-
Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
-
words that sound cool
avalanche, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, cataclysmic, catastrophe, cavity, country, churn, church, dabble and 63 more...
-
Least Favorite Words
blog, painterly, choicest, evildoer, perpetrator, murmur, gab, schmooze, macerate, feeble, lusty, boobs and 72 more...
-
OM3 Lesson 20
throb, throbbing, sip, jaw, sharp, work in, opening, convenient, save, life, cavity, filling and 10 more...
-
Dental Hygiene
toothpaste, toothbrush, mouthwash, fluoride, floss, xylitol, dentures, retainer, halitosis, tongue scraper, tartar, cavity and 2 more...
-
voca22000_1105
voca22000_1105
bush, bough, twig, trunk, thron, oak, bud, pine, petal, mamal, claw, worm and 36 more...
-
TT3 Lesson 31
active, adolescent, adoption, brandy, canine, catheter, cavity, collapse, complain, coordinator, crew, cuddly and 31 more...
-
beauty in a different form
iridescent, acquiesce, translucent, incandescence, rapture, cascade, defiance, viral, averred, quintessent, precipice, essence and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cavity.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.