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Meanings of cleft in English

Portuguese
fenda
Catalan
esberla

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

fenda

Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib.

Related terms

Cloven.

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Usage of cleft in English
1
All cases were children with cleft lip with or without cleft palate.
Pubmed
2
But Martin saw it too, from the cleft in the frowning rock.
Martin Rattler
3
The smoke was carried away through a great cleft in the rocks.
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
4
Once more I noticed the cleft in his chinit was quite deep.
The Four Faces: A Mystery
5
From the first gill-cleft is formed the tympanic cavity of the ear.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
6
The only way to the cave lay by way of the cleft.
Where the Sun Swings North
7
She made no answer, and it was very silent in the cleft.
The Emigrant Trail
8
Again, the dove builds its nest in the cleft of a rock.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
9
In these nothing is left but a relic of the first gill-cleft.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
10
The cleft is a vertical cut of about an inch in length.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
11
He could hear the whistling of the air as he cleft it.
The Shape of Fear
12
Far away in Zululand there is a cleft upon the Ghost Mountain.
Nada the Lily
13
By bracing across the cleft he succeeded in preventing such a calamity.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win
14
I sat at my desk writing lists: cleft, strike, copper, kindness, carry.
A monster's notes
15
Far below in a cleft of the rock is a poor sinner.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
16
We had better success with the cleft graft and the side graft.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at t...
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Translations for cleft
Cleft through the time
Cleft across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common