cleave 的定义
cleaved or clave; cleaved; cleav·ing.
- to adhere closely; stick; cling.
- to remain faithful: to cleave to one's principles in spite of persecution.
cleave 近义词
divide, split
stand by, stick together
更多cleave例句
- These bacteria produce antibiotic-cleaving enzymes that work as molecular scissors, which are released into and kept inside the periplasmic space.
- Questions immediately arose about what could have caused more than 50 apartments to suddenly cleave away from the rest of the building.
- Some limestone is cleaved from the cliff with a pickaxe and burned in a kiln.
- Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker cleaves even more closely to scientific laboratories, following the personalities behind the making of CRISPR.
- More recently, universalism has become a dividing line of its own that cleaves through traditional conceptions of political “left” and “right.”
- Van Cleave maintains that in this day and age, however, Digital Detox Week is "unimplementable."
- Were the members of them to receive the truth, and jointly to cleave to it, these societies would thereby perish.
- In Covenanting, there should be made engagements to cleave to new correct views of truth and duty.
- His tongue would cleave to his mouth in a woman's presence, let alone his lying to her.
- She would cleave to the good God Lucifer, and she aspired to be the bride of Asmodeus.
- Lift high the sword, cleave down the haughty warrior, And dip thy spear in blood, thou son of Odin!