英语词汇“cleft”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cleft1

/klɛft

verb

past participle of cleave¹.

adjective

Split, divided, or partially divided into two: a cleft chin...

Mostly, he saw Bert's fists moving rhythmically, seeming inexorably drawn to Marlon's cleft chin like magnets drawn to metal.
Painted five years earlier, the nine children of Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein each shared the dark eyes and cleft chin of their father.
Many orthopedic conditions, just like dimples or cleft chins, are just normal variations of human anatomy that don't require treatment.

Synonyms

split, divided, cloven, parted, separated

Phrases

be (or be caught) in a cleft stick

Rhymes

cleft2

/klɛft

noun

1A fissure or split, especially in rock or the ground: the third peak is divided from the eastern one by a deep cleft...

The kraal had been ripped asunder, and the ground within the rock cleft and by the cave entrance was littered with dead sheep.
A thin cleft in the rock split the ridge like a wound.
There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks.

Synonyms

split, slit, crack, fissure, crevice, chasm, opening, rift, break, fracture, rent, breach, gash;

cranny, interstice, furrow, indentation;

gap, hole, pit, void, crater

1.1A vertical indentation in the middle of a person’s forehead or chin: the enticing cleft in his chin...

He ran his thumb down the cleft of his chin, self-consciously, over a small vertical shaving nick on the cleft of his chin.
His deep Italian accent made him look all the more adorable as did the small mole left on the cleft of his dimpled chin.
The image of him was quickly fading from Kathleen's mind, but she remembered his firm chin, with a decided cleft down its middle.

1.2A deep division between two parts of the body.It is rare that tissue is needed from elsewhere in the body to close a cleft....

There is no nerve plexus in the clefts between these muscle layers.
He or she will feel for pulses behind your inside ankle bone or in the cleft between your big and next toe.

2 (also cleft sentence) Grammar A sentence in which an element is emphasized by being put in a separate clause, with the use of an empty introductory word such as it or that, e.g. it’s money we want; it was today that I saw him; that was the King you were talking to.The first clause of a cleft sentence consists of It, a form of the verb be, and the focused item....

They weren't necessarily treating the construction itself as a cleft sentence.
Two explanations have been proposed for the formation of the Japanese cleft sentence.

Origin

Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave¹. The form of the word was altered in the 16th century by association with cleft¹.

单词	cleft
释义	cleft1 /klɛft / verb past participle of cleave¹. adjective Split, divided, or partially divided into two: a cleft chin... Mostly, he saw Bert's fists moving rhythmically, seeming inexorably drawn to Marlon's cleft chin like magnets drawn to metal. Painted five years earlier, the nine children of Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein each shared the dark eyes and cleft chin of their father. Many orthopedic conditions, just like dimples or cleft chins, are just normal variations of human anatomy that don't require treatment. Synonyms split, divided, cloven, parted, separated Phrases be (or be caught) in a cleft stick Rhymes bereft, deft, eft, heft, klepht, left, reft, theft, weft cleft2 /klɛft / noun 1A fissure or split, especially in rock or the ground: the third peak is divided from the eastern one by a deep cleft... The kraal had been ripped asunder, and the ground within the rock cleft and by the cave entrance was littered with dead sheep. A thin cleft in the rock split the ridge like a wound. There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks. Synonyms split, slit, crack, fissure, crevice, chasm, opening, rift, break, fracture, rent, breach, gash; cranny, interstice, furrow, indentation; gap, hole, pit, void, crater 1.1A vertical indentation in the middle of a person’s forehead or chin: the enticing cleft in his chin... He ran his thumb down the cleft of his chin, self-consciously, over a small vertical shaving nick on the cleft of his chin. His deep Italian accent made him look all the more adorable as did the small mole left on the cleft of his dimpled chin. The image of him was quickly fading from Kathleen's mind, but she remembered his firm chin, with a decided cleft down its middle. 1.2A deep division between two parts of the body.It is rare that tissue is needed from elsewhere in the body to close a cleft.... There is no nerve plexus in the clefts between these muscle layers. He or she will feel for pulses behind your inside ankle bone or in the cleft between your big and next toe. 2 (also cleft sentence) Grammar A sentence in which an element is emphasized by being put in a separate clause, with the use of an empty introductory word such as it or that, e.g. it’s money we want; it was today that I saw him; that was the King you were talking to.The first clause of a cleft sentence consists of It, a form of the verb be, and the focused item.... They weren't necessarily treating the construction itself as a cleft sentence. Two explanations have been proposed for the formation of the Japanese cleft sentence. Origin Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave¹. The form of the word was altered in the 16th century by association with cleft¹.
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