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Cleft   /klɛft/   Listen
Cleft

noun
1.
A split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin).
2.
A long narrow opening.  Synonyms: crack, crevice, fissure, scissure.
adjective
1.
Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib.  Synonym: dissected.


Cleave

verb
(past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)
1.
Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.  Synonyms: rive, split.
2.
Make by cutting into.
3.
Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation.  Synonyms: adhere, cling, cohere, stick.  "The label stuck to the box" , "The sushi rice grains cohere"



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"Cleft" Quotes from Famous Books



... box is cruelly displayed. The street becomes more dreary from its shade, And vagrant breezes touch its walls and die. Here sullen convicts in their chains might lie, Or slaves toil dumbly at some dreary trade. How worse than folly is their labor made Who cleft the rocks that this might ...
— Trees and Other Poems • Joyce Kilmer
... of the hogback rocks some ten yards from shore. This one rose a good dozen feet above the surface. It was cleft in the middle, forming a little hollow hidden from land and water alike. They crawled into this and sat down, breathing hard. The sea was loud at their backs and the air felt cold on ...
— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson
... insulted, let down into some cleft or cave. It is clearly a "Carrying out the Death," though we do not know the exact date at which it was celebrated. It had its sequel in another festival at Delphi called Herois, or the "Heroine." Plutarch[23] says it was too mystical and secret to describe, ...
— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison
... leaves with serrated, or deeply cleft and indented edges, lend themselves most readily to decorative treatment. Large, broad leaves, with unbroken surfaces, and triangular or rounded outlines, are less manageable. Those most ...
— Wood-Carving - Design and Workmanship • George Jack
... cometh toward Perceval and striketh him a great buffet above in the midst of his helmet, so that he made the sparks fly and his neck stoop and his eyes sparkle of stars. And the blow slippeth down on to the shield, so that it is cleft right down to the boss. Perceval felt his neck stiff and heavy, and feeleth that the knight is sturdy and of great might. He cometh back towards him, and thinketh to strike him above in the midst of his head, but Chaos swerved aside from him; howbeit Perceval ...
— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown


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