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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide, split |
| Synonyms: | carve, chop, crack, cut, dissect, dissever, disunite, divorce, hack, hew, open, part, pierce, rend, rip, rive, separate, sever, slice, stab, sunder, tear asunder, whack |
| Antonyms: | join, meld, unite |
| Main Entry: | cleft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | separated, split |
| Synonyms: | broken, cloven, cracked, crannied, crenelated, parted, perforated, pierced, rent, riven, ruptured, separated, sundered, torn |
| Antonyms: | joined, joint, united |
| Main Entry: | cleft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, breach, canyon, chasm, chink, cleavage, clough, clove, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fracture, gorge, gulch, opening, ravine, rent, rift, rima, rimation, rime, schism, slit |
| Antonyms: | closing, closure, solid |
Example Sentences
- The cleft palate is a common and serious birth defect, but you don't hear much about it.
- His cleft chin and blue eyes gave him the looks of a movie-star, though one who had commanded troops and led uprisings.
- Such images are useful at identifying cleft lip, spina bifida, and some genetic syndromes.
| Main Entry: | adhere |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stick or become stuck to, either physically or mentally |
| Synonyms: | attach, cement, cleave, cling like ivy, cohere, fasten, fix, freeze to, glue, hold fast, hold on like bulldog, paste, stay put, stick like a barnacle, stick like glue, unite |
| Notes: | only things of a different nature can adhere; cohere is for things of the same kind that stick together and form a whole |
| Antonyms: | loose, loosen, separate, unfasten |
| Main Entry: | aperture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cut, eye, fissure, gap, gash, interstice, opening, orifice, outlet, passage, perforation, pinhole, puncture, rift, rupture, slash, slit, slot, space, vent |
| Main Entry: | bisect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide in two |
| Synonyms: | bifurcate, branch off, cleave, cross, cut across, cut in half, cut in two, dichotomize, dimidiate, divaricate, divide in two, fork, furcate, halve, hemisect, intersect, separate, split, split down the middle |
| Antonyms: | combine, join |
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, break, chasm, chip, cleft, crack, discontinuity, fissure, hole, opening, rent, rift, rupture, slit, split |
| Antonyms: | bridge, connection |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fissure, opening |
| Synonyms: | breach, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, division, fracture, gap, gash, hole, rent, rift, rupture, schism, split, tear |
| Antonyms: | association, attachment, binding, combination, fastening, juncture |
| Main Entry: | carve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut carefully with sharp instrument |
| Synonyms: | block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, dissever, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, insculpt, model, mold, mould, pattern, rough-hew, sculpt, shape, slash, slice, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle |
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