'Cleft' definitions:
Definition of 'cleft'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Cleft'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Cleft'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Cleft'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Cleft'
From: GCIDE
- Cleft \Cleft\ (kl[e^]ft), imp. & p. p. from Cleave. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cleft'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'cleft'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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