cleave
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
cleave (cleaves, present participle cleaving; past cleft, past participle cleft)
- (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
- The wings cleaved the foggy air.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 78:15 ↗:
- Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iv]:
- O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
- (transitive, mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
- (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
- The truck cleaved a path through the ice.
- (transitive, chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
- (intransitive) To split.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Numbers 16:31 ↗:
- And it came to passe as he had made an ende of speaking all these words, that the ground claue asunder that was vnder them:
- (intransitive, mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
- French: cliver, fendre
- German: spalten
- Italian: fendere
- Portuguese: partir, talhar
- Russian: раскалывать
- Spanish: hender
- French: cliver
- Italian: ritagliarsi
- Russian: раскалывать
- Italian: tagliare
cleave (plural cleaves)
- (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
cleave (cleaves, present participle cleaving; past and past participle cleaved)
- (intransitive) To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ruth 1:14 ↗:
- And they lift vp their voyce, and wept againe: and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth claue vnto her.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 2 Kings 3:3 ↗:
- Neuerthelesse, hee cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne; he departed not therefrom.
- See also Thesaurus:adhere
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