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Cleft

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounAn opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
"The river flows through a cleft in the mountains."
2.NounA piece made by splitting.
"a cleft of wood"
3.NounA disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
4.VerbTo syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
5.Verbsimple past and past participle of cleave
6.Adjectivesplit, divided, or partially divided into two.
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