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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. A past tense and a past participle of cleave1.
  2. adj. Divided; split.
  3. adj. Botany Having indentations that extend about halfway to the center, as in certain leaves.
  4. n. A crack, crevice, or split.
  5. n. A split or indentation between two parts, as of the chin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A space or opening made by cleavage; a crevice; a fissure; a furrow; a rift; a chink.
  2. n. . The point where the legs are joined to the body; the crotch.
  3. n. 3. That which is cloven; a cloven hoof.
  4. n. A disease of horses characterized by a crack on the bend of the pastern.
  5. n. A piece made by splitting: as, a cleft of wood.
  6. n. Preterit and past participle of cleave.
  7. Split; divided; cloven.
  8. In botany, divided half-way down or somewhat further, with narrow or acute sinuses between the lobes: applied to a lobed leaf, calyx, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
  2. n. A piece made by splitting.
  3. n. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
  4. v. Simple past tense and past participle of cleave.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. imp. & p. p. from cleave.
  2. adj. Divided; split; partly divided or split.
  3. adj. (Bot.) Incised nearly to the midrib.
  4. n. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice.
  5. n. A piece made by splitting.
  6. n. (Far.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
  2. adj. having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib
  3. n. a long narrow opening

Etymologies

  1. Old English clift; compare Swedish klyft ("cave, den") cave, den, German Kluft. See cleave. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, past participle of cleven, to split; see cleave1. N., from Middle English, alteration (influenced by cleft) of clift, from Old English geclyft. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Clinical outcomes in cleft lip and palate surgery.”

    Related Research

  • “We have obtained some of Mr. Jackson's excess body tissues (particularly from the chin cleft area) and have extracted DNA from these tissues.”

    Michael Jackson Genome Project

  • “In other words, any derivative work cleft from the rib of Facebook must visibly bear the mark of the “Initial Developer”, namely, Facebook, Inc., and include the following:”

    Parsing the “open” in Facebook’s “fbOpen” platform | FactoryCity

  • “Native runner arrives from capital with letter wedged in cleft of stick.”

    Archive 2008-01-20

  • “Your child should see a plastic surgeon who specializes in cleft palate and velopharyngeal incompetence.”

    Treating Chromosome 22q Deletion

  • “She stayed six weeks, observing patients at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital for leprosy patients at Carville, La., and taking a crash course in cleft-palate repair at St. Louis Children's Hospital.”

    Vietti, Eleanor A.

  • “Ardel came to St. Louis and took a crash course in cleft-palate repair.”

    Vietti, Eleanor A.

  • “It was supposed to be inaccessible till Dr. Grohmann's time, when the fortunate discovery of a certain cleft by one of his Cortina guides, opened the way to the German cragsman and to all who should come after him.”

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

  • “Harelip, also known as cleft palate, is a birth defect that occurs when the tissues form the upper lip do not join in the middle.”

    6 month old fetus aborted because of harelip

  • “UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was born with a deformity called cleft palate.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2004

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  • dontcry He sounds peckish. Apr 28, 2009

  • brtom A dumb belch of hunger cleft his speech.
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