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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rift
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heal the wounds/breach/division/rift
▪ Our main goal must be to heal the divisions in our society.
rift valley
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
▪ As you can imagine, the bequest has caused a deep rift between them.
▪ This episode reveals a deep and continuing rift between the descendants of Oswiu and the kings of Leodwald's line.
■ NOUN
valley
▪ Luisenlund Bronze Age monoliths and the rift valley of Ekkodal.
▪ Seafloor spreading becomes tangible in the rift valleys of the mid-ocean ridges.
▪ Upland masses exist on either side of a central rift valley.
▪ Further evidence contradicting the traditional symmetric rift valley model comes from observations of their morphology and surface structure.
▪ Some rift valleys are analogous to mid-oceanic ridges in experiencing shallow earthquakes and volcanicity.
■ VERB
cause
▪ But the longer it rumbles on, the more likely it is to cause a permanent rift.
▪ As you can imagine, the bequest has caused a deep rift between them.
▪ Don't let the boys know that they have the power to cause a rift between you and your husband.
▪ The ordination of women and treatment of homosexual clergy - both sensitive issues - may well cause rifts.
▪ Have you been staring at something long enough to cause a rift in your faith?
heal
▪ They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts.
▪ A few weeks later, the two old and broken men moved to heal their twenty-year rift.
▪ Understand the lesson in this for you, and heal the rift between you.
▪ Many in the legal profession hoped that the Committee would help heal the rift between the two branches of the legal profession.
▪ Laurie Mains is at the centre of efforts to heal the rift between players and media.
▪ Theo's visit was intended by both brothers to heal a rift which had developed between them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It took a good five years for the rift within the party to mend.
▪ Joe's marriage caused a huge rift in the family.
▪ The family arguments finally caused a rift between the mother and daughter that has not yet healed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Care should be taken when dealing with loved ones as a rift could form if you are too argumentative.
▪ Crucially, a rift developed between a local strike leadership and the trade union's national officials.
▪ He will not entertain questions about his 25-year rift with Dean Martin, who died recently.
▪ The only preventive measure researchers can take is to concentrate on what is triggering quakes on the rifts that are turned on.
▪ Viacom employees said they were surprised because they had no clues of any rift between Redstone and his top lieutenant.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rift

Rift \Rift\, obs. p. p. of Rive.
--Spenser.

Rift

Rift \Rift\, n. [Written also reft.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See Rive.]

  1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
    --Spenser.

  2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Rift

Rift \Rift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
--Longfellow.

To dwell these rifted rocks between.
--Wordsworth.

Rift

Rift \Rift\, v. i.

  1. To burst open; to split.
    --Shak.

    Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance.
    --Bacon.

  2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rift

early 14c., "a split, act of splitting," from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish and Norwegian rift "a cleft," Old Icelandic ript (pronounced "rift") "breach;" related to Old Norse ripa "to break a contract" (see riven). Figurative use from 1620s. Geological sense from 1921. As a verb, c.1300.

Wiktionary
rift

Etymology 1 n. 1 A chasm or fissure. 2 A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. 3 A shallow place in a stream; a ford. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To form a #Noun. 2 (context transitive English) To cleave; to rive; to split. Etymology 2

vb. (context obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK English) To belch. Etymology 3

vb. (past participle of rive English)

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WordNet
rift

  1. n. a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"

  2. a narrow fissure in rock

  3. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, falling out]

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Wikipedia
Rift (disambiguation)

A rift is a geological occurrence where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart.

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Rift (video game)

RIFT (previously known as Rift: Planes of Telara and as Heroes of Telara before that while still in alpha testing) is a fantasy free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) developed by Trion Worlds. RIFT takes place within the fantasy world of Telara. The game was released in March 2011.

Two competing factions, composed of a selection of races and classes, battle each other and the enemies who emerge from dynamic "rifts".

Rift

In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.

Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-graben with normal faulting and rift-flank uplifts mainly on one side. Where rifts remain above sea level they form a rift valley, which may be filled by water forming a rift lake. The axis of the rift area may contain volcanic rocks, and active volcanism is a part of many, but not all active rift systems.

Major rifts occur along the central axis of most mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust and lithosphere is created along a divergent boundary between two tectonic plates.

Failed rifts are the result of continental rifting that failed to continue to the point of break-up. Typically the transition from rifting to spreading develops at a triple junction where three converging rifts meet over a hotspot. Two of these evolve to the point of seafloor spreading, while the third ultimately fails, becoming an aulacogen.

Rift (album)

Rift is the fourth official studio album by the American rock band Phish. It is the band's second concept album, the first being The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday in 1987, which has never been officially released. Rift's songs convey the experience of a man dreaming about the rift in his relationship with his girlfriend. Recorded in September and October 1992 and produced by Muscle Shoals music veteran Barry Beckett, the album was released by Elektra Records on February 2, 1993.

All songs were written by Trey Anastasio and Phish lyricist Tom Marshall except "Mound" and "Weigh" by bass guitarist Mike Gordon and "Lengthwise" by drummer Jon Fishman.

The instrumental, "All Things Reconsidered", is an intentional variation on the theme to the National Public Radio news show All Things Considered, and has been featured on the show itself several times. An orchestral version of the song appears on Trey Anastasio's 2004 solo album Seis De Mayo.

The cover art was created by New York-based painter David Welker, who worked closely with the band during winter 1993 in order to visually depict each of the album's tracks in a single image, with the notable exception of "The Horse". (For this reason, a horse intentionally appears on the cover of Phish's next album, Hoist). Relix magazine listed Rift as one of the most iconic album covers of all time in 2007.

Rift' was certified gold by the RIAA on October 15, 1997.

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Usage examples of "rift".

A sound like poor dead Acton might make, watching his own remains rotting out there on the rift?

Past admonishments to Peggy to stop writing than had gone unheeded, widening the rift that already existed between brother and sister.

Evaporite deposits of anhydrite and gypsum were formed in the circum-Atlantic rifting and circum-Tethyan zones, and evoke a picture of coastal deserts such as near the modern Red Sea.

Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein invited me to witness the signing ceremony on October 26, in the Wadi Araba border crossing in the great Rift Valley.

BODY, An American scientist studying Archaeon marine organisms was killed yesterday when his one-man submersible became wedged in an undersea canyon of the Galapagos Rift.

The Rift was quiet now, the wind strangely becalmed, the stench of underworld metals rising in its place.

Malaria, malnutrition, river blindness, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, yaws, bilharzia, and rift valley fever were everywhere in retreat under the benign rule of the Pan-African Federation.

But winds, Etowan Elacca knew, had a way of changing their courses, and perhaps the Chafer had chosen to visit a different side of the Rift this year.

They sagged and bowed, water breaching them in gouts and diluting the riverbed, eddying around the feet of the few remaining strikers, coiling like the gas above it, until with a shiver the Gross Tar reknit itself, healing the little rift that had paralysed it and confused its currents.

He cited the deception of Yakim Douan as the primary reason for the destructive and unnecessary rift between the two churches, Abellican and Chezru.

The appointment has largely been greeted with enthusiasm by the Wizardmg community, though rumors of a rift between the new Minister and Albus Dumbledore, newly reinstated Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, surfaced within hours of Scrimgeour taking office.

Duchess of Rift Ridge, marched before the dynast like a common criminal!

The rift between warder and reckoner had begun under that Ennead, was one of its nasty byblows.

Rift, I felt my world totter, seeing the wreckage that bastard Evocator had wrought.

Foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, Rift Valley fever, vesicular stomatitis, vesicular exanthema, hog cholera, African swine fever, fowl plague, Newcastle disease, and equine encephalomyelitis.