| 单词 | cleft |
| 释义 | cleft (once / 1156 pages) nadj If you're looking for an indentation or opening in something, you're looking for a cleft (noun). A person with a cleft (adjective) chin has a little dent in the middle of their chin. Most superheroes have one. Superman is known for his ability to leap tall buildings, his crush on Lois Lane, and the cleft in his chin. For some reason, that cleft is supposed to make him look strong. Some clefts are not so nice. A cleft palate is an upper lip with a deep indentation in it that should be fixed by a surgeon. You may know the verb cleave, which means to cut down the middle. If you cleave something but don't finish the job, you've probably left a cleft in it. WORD FAMILYcleft: clefts USAGE EXAMPLESHe formed Wham! with a schoolmate, Andrew Ridgeley, who wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he was “cleft with grief.” New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) The study’s findings don’t apply to older children or those with additional risk factors for ear infections, such as cleft palate or Down syndrome. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) The cleft in the Douglas chin is, with the exception of the Grand Canyon, the most popular natural rift in America. The New Yorker(Dec 09, 2016) 1n a long narrow opening Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper crack, crevice, fissure, scissure Denali Fault a major open geological fault in Alaska San Andreas Faulta major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes chap a crack in a lip caused usually by cold chinka narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall crevassea deep fissure fatigue cracka crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other rifta narrow fissure in rock slita narrow fissure splita lengthwise crack in wood vent, volcanoa fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt inclined faulta geological fault in which one side is above the other strike-slip faulta geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally gap, opening an open or empty space in or between things 2n a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin) Hyper indentation, indenture a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) 3adj having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib Syn dissected compound composed of more than one part |
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