Crater

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crater \Cra"ter\ (kr[=a]"t[~e]r), n. [L. crater, cratera, a
     mixing vessel, the mouth of a volcano, Gr. krath`r, fr.
     keranny`nai to mix; cf. Skr. [,c]r[imac] to mix, [,c]ir to
     cook, [,c]r[=a] to cook. Cf. {Grail}, in Holy Grail.]
     1. The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which
        the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a


        geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Mil.) The pit left by the explosion of a bomb, shell, or
        mine.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Astron.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; --
        called also the {Cup}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crater
       n 1: a bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano [syn: {volcanic
            crater}]
       2: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra
          and Corvus
       3: a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite
          or bomb

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "crater":
     abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, armpit, basin,
     birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowl, bulla, cavity,
     chasm, check, cicatrix, comedo, concave, concavity, crack, craze,
     crevasse, crypt, cup, deep, defacement, defect, deformation,
     deformity, depression, depth, dip, disfiguration, disfigurement,
     distortion, fault, flaw, fold, follicle, freckle, funnel chest,
     gulf, hemangioma, hickey, hole, hollow, hollow shell, keloid, kink,
     lacuna, lentigo, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit,
     pock, pocket, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain,
     punch bowl, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scoop, scratch,
     sebaceous cyst, shaft, shell, sink, sinus, socket, split,
     strawberry mark, sty, track, trough, twist, verruca, vesicle, vug,
     wale, warp, wart, weal, well, welt, wen, whitehead,
     yawning abyss