cleft

FREQ #31792

n. 裂缝, 裂口 a. 劈开的 cleave的过去式和过去分词

发音

其它 /klɛft/

词形变化

clefts 复数 clefts clefts 三单 clefting 现在分词 clefted 过去式 clefted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

    裂缝

    The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.

  2. 2.

    A piece made by splitting.

    a cleft of wood

  3. 3.

    A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

v.
  1. 1.

    To 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."

    语言学
  2. 1.

    simple past and past participle of cleave

adj.
  1. 1.

    split, divided, or partially divided into two.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

crack fissure crevice scissure

上位词 4

opening gap indentation indenture

下位词 10

break fault split shift chap volcano fracture slit vent rift
形容词

同义词 1

dissected

近义相关 2

compound divided

相关短语

cleft lip [医] 唇裂 cleft palate [医] 腭裂 cleft grafting cleft stick cleft sticks cleft chin 裂下巴 cleft chins cleft sentence 分裂句（以it或that开始, 后接从句） cleft sentences cleft lips cleft palates cleft habitus cleft of Venus in a cleft stick 进退两难 gluteal cleft 臀沟

词源

From Middle English clift, from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz, equivalent to cleave + -t (“-th”). Compare Dutch klucht (“coarse comedy”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”), German Kluft. See cleave.

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