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cleft
Overview of noun cleft
The noun cleft has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) cleft -- (a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin))
2. crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure -- (a long narrow opening)
Overview of verb cleave
The verb cleave has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) cleave, split, rive -- (separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone")
2. cleave -- (make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock")
3. cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere -- (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere")
Overview of adj cleft
The adj cleft has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. cloven, cleft, bisulcate -- (used of hooves)
2. cleft, dissected -- (having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cleft
2 senses of cleft
Sense 1
cleft
=> indentation, indenture
=> concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
=> solid
=> shape, form
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
=> opening, gap
=> space
=> amorphous shape
=> shape, form
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun cleft
1 of 2 senses of cleft
Sense 2
crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
=> chap
=> chink
=> crevasse
=> fatigue crack
=> fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break
=> rift
=> slit
=> split
=> vent, volcano
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cleft
2 senses of cleft
Sense 1
cleft
=> indentation, indenture
Sense 2
crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
=> opening, gap
Antonyms of noun cleft
Member Holonyms of noun cleft
Substance Holonyms of noun cleft
Part Holonyms of noun cleft
Member Meronyms of noun cleft
Substance Meronyms of noun cleft
Part Meronyms of noun cleft
Meronyms of noun cleft
Holonyms of noun cleft
Attributes of noun cleft
Derived Forms of noun cleft
1 of 2 senses of cleft
Sense 1
cleft
RELATED TO>(verb) cleave#1
=> cleave, split, rive
RELATED TO>(verb) cleave#2
=> cleave
Domain of noun cleft
Domain Terms of noun cleft
Familiarity of noun cleft
cleft used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun cleft
2 senses of cleft
Sense 1
cleft
> indentation, indenture
=> notch
=> notch
=> cleft
Sense 2
crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
> opening, gap
=> pocket
=> diastema
=> Ranvier's nodes, nodes of Ranvier
=> foramen, hiatus
=> breach
=> chasm
=> crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
=> hole
=> mouth
=> rift
=> rip, rent, snag, split, tear
=> window
Meronyms of noun cleft
2 senses of cleft
Holonyms of noun cleft
Grep of noun cleft
branchial cleft
cleft
cleft foot
cleft lip
cleft palate
gill cleft
pudendal cleft
urogenital cleft
Antonyms of verb cleave
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> tear
=> separate, disunite, divide, part
=> move, displace
Sense 2
cleave
=> make, create
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb cleave
2 of 3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> maul
=> laminate
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> mold
=> conglutinate
=> agglutinate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> tear
Sense 2
cleave
=> make, create
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
'Cause To' of verb cleave
Derived Forms of verb cleave
2 of 3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
RELATED TO>(noun) cleft#1
=> cleft
RELATED TO>(noun) cleavage#5
=> cleavage
RELATED TO>(noun) cleaver#1
=> cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper
Sense 2
cleave
RELATED TO>(noun) cleft#1
=> cleft
Domain of verb cleave
Domain Terms of verb cleave
Familiarity of verb cleave
cleave used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
cleave
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
*> Something ----s
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Somebody ----s PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
> tear
=> cleave, split, rive
Sense 2
cleave
> make, create
=> beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
=> reproduce, procreate, multiply
=> regenerate
=> clear
=> distill, extract, distil
=> derive, educe
=> froth, spume, suds
=> lay down, establish, make
=> puncture
=> twine
=> cleave
=> track
=> institute, bring
=> short-circuit, short
=> re-create
=> grind
=> generate, bring forth
=> originate, initiate, start
=> give, yield
=> bring, work, play, wreak, make for
=> raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> create, make
=> realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> cause, do, make
=> establish, give
=> put on, turn in
=> bear, turn out
=> create from raw material, create from raw stuff
=> construct, build, make
=> build, establish
=> assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
=> style
=> strike
=> copy, re-create
=> create verbally
=> compose, write
=> choreograph
=> direct
=> film
=> film-make
=> recreate
=> offset
=> scrape
=> produce, bring forth
=> produce, bring about, give rise
=> press
=> prepare
=> cut
=> cut
=> raise
=> beat
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> incorporate
=> form, organize, organise
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
=> cover, spread over
=> cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch
=> attach
=> hug
=> border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on
=> surround, skirt, border
=> lean on, rest on, lean against
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> tear
Sense 2
cleave
=> make, create
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Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
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Grep of verb cleave
cleave
Antonyms of adj cleft
2 senses of cleft
Sense 1
cloven, cleft, bisulcate
INDIRECT (VIA divided) -> united
Sense 2
cleft, dissected
INDIRECT (VIA compound) -> simple, unsubdivided
Similarity of adj cleft
2 senses of cleft
Sense 1
cloven, cleft, bisulcate
=> divided (vs. united)
Sense 2
cleft, dissected
=> compound (vs. simple)
Pertainyms of adj cleft
Attributes of adj cleft
Domain of adj cleft
Domain Terms of adj cleft
Familiarity of adj cleft
cleft used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj cleft
cleft
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