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cleft 音标拼音: [kl'ɛft] n. 裂缝,裂口
a. 劈开的
v.
vbl. 劈开,分开 裂缝,裂口劈开的劈开,分开 cleft adj 1: having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib [ synonym: { cleft}, { dissected}] n 1: a split or indentation in something ( as the palate or chin) 2: a long narrow opening [ synonym: { crack}, { cleft}, { crevice}, { fissure}, { scissure}] Cleave \ Cleave\ ( kl[= e] v), v. t. [ imp. { Cleft} ( kl[ e^] ft), { Clave} ( kl[= a] v, Obs.), { Clove} ( kl[= o] v, Obsolescent); p. p. { Cleft}, { Cleaved} ( kl[= e] vd) or { Cloven} ( kl[= o]" v' n); p. pr. & vb. n. { Cleaving}.] [ OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle[' o] fan; akin to OS. klioban, D. klooven, G. klieben, Icel. klj[= u] fa, Sw. klyfva, Dan. kl[" o] ve and prob. to Gr. gly` fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf. { Cleft}.] 1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. [ 1913 Webster] O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To part or open naturally; to divide. [ 1913 Webster] Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. -- Deut. xiv. 6. [ 1913 Webster]
Cleft \ Cleft\ ( kl[ e^] ft), imp. & p. p. from { Cleave}. [ 1913 Webster]
Cleft \ Cleft\, a. 1. Divided; split; partly divided or split. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Bot.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf. [ 1913 Webster]
Cleft \ Cleft\, n. [ OE. clift; cf. Sw. klyft cave, den, Icel. kluft cleft, Dan. kl[" o] ft, G. kluft. See { Cleave} to split and cf. 2d { Clift}, 1st { Clough}.] 1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. -- Is. ii. 21. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Far.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. [ 1913 Webster] { Branchial clefts}. See under { Branchial}. Syn: Crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny. [ 1913 Webster] 171 Moby Thesaurus words for " cleft": abysm, abyss, alienation, aperture, arroyo, bifurcated, bisected, blaze, box canyon, branched, branching, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakage, broaching, burst, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleuch, clough, clove, cloven, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, crena, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dehiscent, dell, depression, dichotomous, dike, dimidiate, disaffection, disclosure, disfavor, disruption, disunion, disunity, ditch, divergence, divided, dividedness, division, donga, draw, estrangement, excavation, falling- out, fault, fenestra, fissure, fissured, fissury, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, forked, forking, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halved, hiatus, hole, hollow, in pieces, in shreds, incision, indentation, inlet, interval, jag, jog, joggle, joint, kerf, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, lacuna, laying open, leak, mangled, moat, mutilated, nick, nock, notch, nullah, open rupture, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pore, quartered, ragged, ramified, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, riven, rupture, scale, schism, scissure, score, scotch, seam, separation, severed, shredded, slash, slice, slit, slot, space, splinter, splintered, split, stoma, tattered, tear, throwing open, torn, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley, void, wadi, yawn
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