Crossword clues for cleave
cleave
- Adhere closely
- Stick firmly
- Use a hatchet on
- Split along the grain
- Take an axe to
- Split with an ax
- Split with a blade
- Split into parts
- Word that can mean "attach" or "separate"
- Word either meaning "adhere" or "split"
- Take a hatchet to
- Synonym for both "adhere" and "split"
- Stick, or split
- Stick fast, or split apart
- Split, or stick
- Split, or adhere
- Separate, or join
- Remain faithful (to)
- Cut (with an axe?)
- Create a rift
- Chop in two
- Cause a separation
- Adhere or divide
- Ruminant's divided foot
- Facing a dilemma after Celtic fan's kit is ruined
- Split apart
- Stick or split
- Split asunder
- Stick (to)
- Sunder
- Divide
- Split with an axe
- Chop chops
- Adhere or split
- Split or adhere
- Cling (to)
- Adhere or sever
- Quit after Conservative split
- Cut open
- Corps given permission to split up
- Cold holiday split
- End of public holidays in Split
- Split stick
- Fissure allows the French inside underground chamber
- About to depart or part forcefully
- Join or split
- Split in two
- Cut through
- Split open
- Do a hatchet job on
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), v. i. [imp. Cleaved (kl[=e]vd), Clave (kl[=a]v, Obs.); p. p. Cleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaving.] [OE. cleovien, clivien, cliven, AS. cleofian, clifian; akin to OS. klib[=o]n, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. kl[ae]be, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. kl[=i]fa to climb. Cf. Climb.]
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To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
My bones cleave to my skin.
--Ps. cii. 5.The diseases of Egypt . . . shall cleave unto thee.
--Deut. xxviii. 60.Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
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To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.
--Gen. ii. 24.Cleave unto the Lord your God.
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To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. [Poetic.]
New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use.
--Shak.
Cleave \Cleave\ (kl[=e]v), v. t. [imp. Cleft (kl[e^]ft), Clave (kl[=a]v, Obs.), Clove (kl[=o]v, Obsolescent); p. p. Cleft, Cleaved (kl[=e]vd) or Cloven (kl[=o]"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaving.] [OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle['o]fan; akin to OS. klioban, D. klooven, G. klieben, Icel. klj[=u]fa, Sw. klyfva, Dan. kl["o]ve and prob. to Gr. gly`fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf. Cleft.]
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To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
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To part or open naturally; to divide.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws.
--Deut. xiv. 6.
Cleave \Cleave\, v. i. To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst.
--Zech.
xiv. 4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to adhere," Middle English cleven, clevien, cliven, from Old English clifian, cleofian, from West Germanic *klibajan (cognates: Old Saxon klibon, Old High German kliban, Dutch kleven, Old High German kleben, German kleben "to stick, cling, adhere"), from PIE *gloi- "to stick" (see clay). The confusion was less in Old English when cleave (v.1) was a class 2 strong verb; but it has grown since cleave (v.1) weakened, which may be why both are largely superseded by stick (v.) and split (v.).
"to split," Old English cleofan, cleven, cliven "to split, separate" (class II strong verb, past tense cleaf, past participle clofen), from Proto-Germanic *kleuban (cognates: Old Saxon klioban, Old Norse kljufa, Danish klöve, Dutch kloven, Old High German klioban, German klieben "to cleave, split"), from PIE root *gleubh- "to cut, slice" (see glyph).\n
\nPast tense form clave is recorded in Northern writers from 14c. and was used with both verbs (see cleave (v.2)), apparently by analogy with other Middle English strong verbs. Clave was common to c.1600 and still alive at the time of the KJV; weak past tense cleaved for this verb also emerged in 14c.; cleft is still later. The past participle cloven survives, though mostly in compounds.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context technology English) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. 2 (context transitive mineralogy English) 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. 3 (context transitive English) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. 4 (context transitive chemistry English) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules. 5 (context intransitive English) To split. 6 (context intransitive mineralogy English) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division. Etymology 2
vb. (context intransitive English) To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
WordNet
v. separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: split, rive]
make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
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" [syn: cling, adhere, stick, cohere]
Wikipedia
Cleave may refer to:
- Cleave (surname)
- Cleave (fiber), a controlled break in optical fiber
- RAF Cleave, was an airfield in the north of Cornwall, England, May 1939 - Nov 1945
- The process of protein cleaving as a form of post-translational modification
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, a German alternative rock band
Cleave is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Chris Cleave (born 1973), British journalist
- Egbert Cleave ( fl. 1870s), American author
- John Cleave (born c. 1790), British chartist
- Mary L. Cleave (born 1947), American astronaut and engineer
- Maureen Cleave, British journalist active in 1960s
- Paul Cleave (born 1974), New Zealand author
- Thomas L. Cleave (1906-1983), British surgeon captain
A cleave in an optical fiber is a deliberate, controlled break, intended to create a perfectly flat endface, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fiber. The process of cleaving an optical fiber forms one of the steps in the preparation for a fiber splice operation regardless of the subsequent splice being a fusion splice or a mechanical splice; the other steps in the preparation being those of stripping and fiber alignment. A good cleave is required for a successful low loss splice of an optical fiber, often it is the case that fibers spliced by identical methods tend to have different losses, this difference can often be attributed to the quality of their initial cleaves.
The general method of cleaving involves a general strategy known as the scribe-and-tension or scribe-and-break strategy. This strategy involves the introduction of a small crack into the fiber and the subsequent application of a tensile force in the vicinity of the crack that causes the fiber to cleave.
Usage examples of "cleave".
Through the gnarled limbs Aganippe saw two great rounded folds of earth, with a dark cleft between them, topped by a tuft of trees and brush.
His back felt so naked, so white in the gloom that he kept expecting to glance around and see the kid aiming with a smile at the cleft between his shoulder blades.
He saw the green cleft in the hills where the Aller came down from its distant wells, and the darker glen of the Rood where bent was exchanged for rock and heather.
On either side, to right and left the tree-girdle reached out toward the blue distance, thick close and unsundered, save where it and the plain which it begirdled was cleft amidmost by a river about as wide as the Thames at Sheene when the flood-tide is at its highest, but so swift and full of eddies, that it gave token of mountains not so far distant, though they were hidden.
It looked as if we were walking right against the towering ice wall, but when we were within a yard or two of it a narrow cleft, only eighteen inches wide, and wonderfully masked by an ice column, showed to the left, and into this we squeezed ourselves, the entrance by which we had come appearing to close up instantly we had gone a pace or two, so perfectly did the ice walls match each other.
I had the breasts of a woman, and very fine ones they were, too: shapely, upthrusting, ivory-skinned, with nicely large, fawn-colored areole around tumescent nipples, the whole array shining with sweat and a trickle meandering down the cleft between.
Wicked get-down dirty sex portrayed in an atmosphere of wholesome hygienic athleticism was a combination calculated to tease beyond enduring the national cleft.
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Meanwhile, the move from Bergamot Street to Clove Street had to be made quicklyto this purpose, everything had been boxed in advance.
The jutting carapace of the instrument binnacle presided over the dark cleft between his buttocks.
Dark lightning cracked as the Boaster arm split from its counterweight, toppled over the eastern edge of the Key, and fell forward, landing with thunder and hissing, cleaving water.
Toroca was poised in a little cleft, nine-tenths of the way up the cliff side, working along the Bookmark layer, the chalky seam marking the first rocks containing evidence of life.
With sickening thuds, axes joined the cacophonous din of death and cleaved helms, opened skulls, spilled brains.
Fry, add a can of tomatoes, a chopped clove of garlic, and cayenne, salt, and pepper to season.
A village seven miles from Woodsite, calm in its half-deserted state, with its men all at business in New York, was cleaved, as it were, by the racing machines, while women and children ran and screamed to escape from the path of the monsters.