cleft
裂缝,裂纹,裂隙,裂口
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Definitions
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- : 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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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.