Cleft

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • adjective. Divided; split.
  • adjective. Having indentations that extend about halfway to the center, as in certain leaves.
  • noun. A crack, crevice, or split.
  • noun. A split or indentation between two parts, as of the chin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A space or opening made by cleavage; a crevice; a fissure; a furrow; a rift; a chink.
  • noun. . The point where the legs are joined to the body; the crotch.
  • noun. 3. That which is cloven; a cloven hoof.
  • noun. A disease of horses characterized by a crack on the bend of the pastern.
  • noun. A piece made by splitting: as, a cleft of wood.
  • noun. Preterit and past participle of cleave.
  • Split; divided; cloven.
  • In botany, divided half-way down or somewhat further, with narrow or acute sinuses between the lobes: applied to a lobed leaf, calyx, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. from cleave.
  • adjective. Divided; split; partly divided or split.
  • adjective. Incised nearly to the midrib.
  • noun. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice.
  • noun. A piece made by splitting.
  • noun. A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
  • noun. See under Branchial.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
  • noun. A piece made by splitting.
  • noun. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of cleave.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
  • adjective. having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib
  • noun. a long narrow opening
  • cross-reference
    Equivalent
    compound  
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    antitheft  bereft  deft  heft  left  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alleyway  chasm  chink  cleave  crag  
    Synonym
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    variant
    cleave  
    verb-form
    clefted  clefting  clefts  
    verb-stem
    cleave