cleft
IPA: kɫˈɛft
noun
- An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
- A piece made by splitting.
- A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
verb
- (linguistics) 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."
adjective
- split, divided, or partially divided into two.
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Examples of "cleft" in Sentences
- The cleft then opens revealing the Prison of Jealousy.
- The only entrance was via a narrow cleft in the sea cliff.
- Finally, the last element of a cleft is the cleft constituent.
- This caused such a fright that the boy was killed by the clefts.
- The arms show a figure which represents the cleft of the island.
- Some of them includes the cleft in his chin wile others does not.
- The crena is another formal term for the cleft between the buttocks.
- A cleft lip and or cleft palate may affect the behavior of preschoolers.
- The cleft at the center of the flower has white or yellowish scattered hairs.
- Cleft lip and palate incidence among the live births in the Republic of Korea.