Definitions
1.verbTo split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument."The wings cleaved the foggy air."
2.verbTo 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.verbTo make or accomplish by or as if by cutting."The truck cleaved a path through the ice."
4.verbTo split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
5.verbTo split.
6.verbOf a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
7.verbTo cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.