cleave
IPA: kɫˈiv
noun
- (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
- (transitive, mineralogy) 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.
- (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
- (transitive, chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
- (intransitive) To split.
- (intransitive, mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
- (intransitive, rare) Followed by to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something.
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Examples of "cleave" in Sentences
- The end of the flower is cleaved into two.
- The veins are black and they cleave the green areas.
- Cleave TL 1974 The Saccharine disease Wright Bristol.
- Pick up a stone to strike, cleave, aggress or defend.
- The result of the proposal was a consensus to cleave the article.
- Ribonucleases cleave the RNA and ligases join the exons together.
- The lysosomal enzymes cleave the T4 from the iodinated thyroglobulin.
- Propeptide domain, which is cleaved during the activity of the enzyme.
- Jon Cleave is the MC of the group and also an author of children's books.
- Could it be verified by a word with the staff of the dairy, or of the Cleave