| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | cleave |
| 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: | cleave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stand by, stick together |
| Synonyms: | abide by, adhere, agree, associate, attach, be devoted to, be tight with, be true, cling, cohere, combine, freeze to, hold, join, link, remain, stay put, unite |
| 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: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, break, chasm, chip, cleft, crack, discontinuity, fissure, hole, opening, rent, rift, rupture, slit, split |
| Notes: | breach is an infraction, gap, or break; breech is the rear or lower portion of things |
| 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 |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | association, attachment, binding, combination, fastening, juncture |
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
| Synonyms: | abysm, alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, clough, clove, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, preterition, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn |
| Antonyms: | closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | chink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, cleft, crack, crevice, cut, fissure, gap, hole, rift, slit, slot, space |
| Main Entry: | cleavage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | break, chasm, cleft, discontinuity, divide, division, fracture, hole, rift, schism, separation, severance, split, valley |