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cleft

/kleft/US // klɛft //UK // (klɛft) //

裂缝,裂纹,裂隙,裂口

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a space or opening made by cleavage; a split.
    • : a division formed by cleaving.
    • : a hollow area or indentation: a chin with a cleft.
    • : Veterinary Pathology. a crack on the bend of the pastern of a horse.

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Examples

  • Messages pass between one cell and onto the next by floating across the space between — a gap called the synaptic cleft.

  • Like the Korean Peninsula, Illinois is cleft into two parts: Chicagoland and “downstate.”

  • He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.

  • So I even told her how he had gone over the edge into the cleft, but without saying that we feared for his life for so long.

  • Thrice—De Valmont's guard shivered as a rush—through shield, hauberk, gorget cleft the Vikings' blade.

  • Point a pitying finger to the yawning abyss of shame, ruin, and despair that even now perhaps is being cleft under his feet.

  • But a single effective shot into the centre of the column had cleft it as a rock divides a torrent.