cleave

FREQ #25479

vt. 劈开, 分开 vi. 劈开, 分开, 粘着, 依恋

发音

UK /kliːv/
AU
US /kliv/

词形变化

cleaves 复数 cleaves 三单 cleaving 现在分词 cleft 过去式 clove 过去式 cleaved 过去式 clave 过去式 cleft 过去分词 clove 过去分词 cleaved 过去分词 clave 过去分词 cloven 过去式 cloven 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.

    工程
  2. 2.

    A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.

v.
  1. 1.

    To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

    劈开

    及物

    The wings clove the foggy air.

  2. 2.

    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.

    及物 化学 地质
  3. 3.

    To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

    及物

    The truck clove a path through the ice.

  4. 4.

    (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To split.

    不及物
  6. 6.

    Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

    不及物 化学 地质
  7. 1.

    Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.

    不及物 罕用

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词源

From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West Germanic *kleuban, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”). Doublet of clive. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “carve”).

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