Sekirov Dictionary

cleave

/ˈkliːv/

verb 7
noun 2
forms 11

verb7

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To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
- The wings clove the foggy air.
To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
(chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
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To split.
- And it came to passe as he had made an ende of speaking all these words, that the ground claue asunder that was vnder them: — 1611
Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
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(rare) Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.
- And they lift vp their voyce, and wept againe: and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth claue vnto her. — 1611
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To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
- The truck clove a path through the ice.

noun2

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A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.
- The valley by which the Taw leaves the Moor forms one of the cleaves that add so greatly to the attractions of the place, and this bears the same name as the parish. — 1905
Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.

forms

clave · cleaved · cleft · clove · clavest · cleavedst · cloven · cleaving · cleaves · cleaveth · cleavest

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