cleft / klɛft /

💦中学词汇裂缝裂纹裂隙裂口

cleft 的定义

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

cleft 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

separated, split

n. 名词 noun

break, gap

更多cleft例句

  1. Messages pass between one cell and onto the next by floating across the space between — a gap called the synaptic cleft.
  2. Like the Korean Peninsula, Illinois is cleft into two parts: Chicagoland and “downstate.”
  3. He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.
  4. 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.
  5. Thrice—De Valmont's guard shivered as a rush—through shield, hauberk, gorget cleft the Vikings' blade.
  6. Point a pitying finger to the yawning abyss of shame, ruin, and despair that even now perhaps is being cleft under his feet.
  7. But a single effective shot into the centre of the column had cleft it as a rock divides a torrent.