The meaning of Cavity

noun

Any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange.

Usage examples:

Scientists also suspect that air pollutants might dampen the growth of alveoli, tiny air sacs in th…

noun

A roughly spherical roman flask with two handles.

Usage examples:

A roman ampulla, a bronze fibula, pieces of coarse pottery, and various bones, are among the latest…

noun

A widened area of tube in the body, especially the canals of the ear

noun

A natural chamber or cavity in a bone or other anatomical structure.

Usage examples:

Cholesterol granuloma is usually associated with chronic middle ear disease and is common in the ma…

noun

A hollow space, especially in a bone

noun

An opening, hole, or gap.

Usage examples:

The bell ropes passed through apertures in the ceiling

noun

The rudimentary alimentary cavity of an embryo at the gastrula stage.

Usage examples:

It doesn't seem to do much of anything, except to offer little suggestions to cells migrating into …

noun

A large blister containing serous fluid.

Usage examples:

Within three weeks, his toes turned black and serous-filled bullae erupted.

noun

A fluid-filled sac or saclike cavity, especially one countering friction at a joint.

Usage examples:

Another slip may attach to the synovial bursa forming a tensor bursae mucosae tendinum.

proper noun

A city in north-western turkey, capital of a province of the same name; population 1,431,200 (est. 2007). it was the capital of the ottoman empire from 1326–1402.

noun

A large room used for formal or public events.

Usage examples:

A council chamber

verb

Place (a bullet) into the chamber of a gun.

Usage examples:

He chambered a fresh cartridge

noun

The state or quality of being concave.

Usage examples:

The concavity of her stomach

noun

The quality of curving in, or an object or surface that curves in

Usage examples:

The valley looks utterly serene now - a spacious concavity lying between pine-clad peaks., there is…

noun

A large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite.

Usage examples:

The blast left a crater in the car park

verb

Form a crater in (the ground or a planet).

Usage examples:

Pilots returned to the airfields to crater the runways

proper noun

A small and faint southern constellation (the cup), between hydra and leo, said to represent the goblet of apollo.

noun

The action of cutting something.

Usage examples:

The cutting of the cake

adjective

Capable of cutting something.

Usage examples:

The cutting blades of the hedge trimmer

verb

Make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object.

Usage examples:

He cut his toe on a sharp stone

noun

A break or hole in an object or between two objects.

Usage examples:

He peeped through the gap in the curtains

noun

An empty space or opening in the middle of something or between two things

Usage examples:

Picking up speed, she closed the gap between them., she has a gap between her front teeth., after a…

noun

A difference between two numbers, amounts, or levels

Usage examples:

Forecasters are predicting a budget gap of nearly $17 bn next year., there is a $40 million shortfa…

noun

A hollow place in a solid body or surface.

Usage examples:

The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb

Make a hole or holes in.

Usage examples:

A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

adjective

Having a hole or empty space inside.

Usage examples:

A hollow metal tube

noun

A hole or depression in something.

Usage examples:

A hollow at the base of a large tree

verb

Form by making a hole.

Usage examples:

A tunnel was hollowed out in a mountain range

noun

An unfilled space; a gap.

Usage examples:

The journal has filled a lacuna in middle eastern studies

noun

An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing

noun

The si unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light emitted per second in a unit solid angle of one steradian from a uniform source of one candela.

Usage examples:

This 18-volt light offers 500 lumens of searing white light for 20 minutes, or you can employ the 2…

noun

The central cavity of a tubular or other hollow structure in an organism or cell.

Usage examples:

The stomach empties food into the lumen of the small intestine

noun

The standard unit for measuring the brightness of a light, equal to the amount of light hitting one square foot of surface one foot away from the light

noun

The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.

Usage examples:

The earth's orbit around the sun

verb

(of a celestial object or spacecraft) move in orbit round (a star or planet).

Usage examples:

Mercury orbits the sun

noun

The curved path through which objects in space move around a planet or star that has gravity (= a pulling force)

noun

An opening, particularly one in the body such as a nostril or the anus.

Usage examples:

On the left there was an obstructing lesion noted at the orifice of the left upper lobe bronchus.

noun

An opening or hole, especially one in the body, such as the mouth

Usage examples:

Humorous i was stuffing cake into every available orifice., formal the driver was bleeding from eve…

noun

A large hole in the ground.

Usage examples:

I do not see any risk of these pits becoming breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

verb

Set someone or something in conflict or competition with.

Usage examples:

You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions

verb

Remove the pit from (fruit).

Usage examples:

Leave some cherries whole so people can see later on how hard you worked pitting real cherries.

noun

A small bag sewn into or on clothing so as to form part of it, used for carrying small articles.

Usage examples:

She fished for her door key in her coat pocket

adjective

Of a suitable size for carrying in a pocket.

Usage examples:

A pocket german dictionary

verb

Put into one's pocket.

Usage examples:

She watched him lock up and pocket the key

noun

A small flexible bag, typically carried in a pocket or attached to a belt.

Usage examples:

A tobacco pouch

verb

Put into a pouch.

Usage examples:

He stopped, pouched his tickets, and plodded on

noun

A bag or soft container

Usage examples:

The raincoat is folded inside a small waterproof pouch.

noun

A hollow, flexible structure resembling a bag or pouch.

Usage examples:

A fountain pen with an ink sac

abbreviation

(in the us) strategic air command.

abbreviation

(in the raf) senior aircraftman or senior aircraftwoman.

noun

A cavity within a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities.

Usage examples:

Your sinuses are hollow spaces within the bones of your face, behind and above your nose.

noun

Any of the hollow spaces in the bones of the head that open into the nose

noun

A natural or artificial hollow into which something fits or in which something revolves.

Usage examples:

The eye socket

verb

Place in or fit with a socket.

Usage examples:

By then, arrowheads were normally socketed

noun

A hollow or curved part into which something fits

Usage examples:

The bulb screwed easily into a socket., somehow the bone was pulled from its socket.

noun

A continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied.

Usage examples:

A table took up much of the space

verb

Position (two or more items) at a distance from one another.

Usage examples:

The poles are spaced 3m apart

noun

An empty place

Usage examples:

[ c ] a parking/storage space, [ u ] he was staring into space, seeing nothing., [ c ] out west the…

noun

A hollow part or cavity in an organ.

Usage examples:

It communicated with the left ventricle through an orifice surrounded by pearly endocardial plaque.

noun

Each of the two main spaces in the heart, left and right

noun

A small fluid-filled bladder, sac, cyst, or vacuole within the body.

Usage examples:

They are united by the presence of small vesicles in, or just under, the plasma membrane.

noun

A small structure like a bag in a human, animal, or plant