cleave

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
2. (transitive) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
3. (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
4. (transitive) (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
5. (intransitive) To split.
6. (intransitive) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

Noun

1. Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
2. A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.

Sinonieme

split

adhere

rend

cling

break

crack

sever

stick

cut

divide

chop

pierce

cohere

hew

rive

slice

part

snap

splinter

rip

tear

fissure

burst

cut up

stick to

split up

slit

shorten

slash

segment

cling to

shave

glue

penetrate

shear

cut asunder

fist

✊

chase

dismember

catch

bog down

devide

dent

infect

indent

hold together

cut through

burst open

bind

hitch

Vertalings

spalten

fendre

hender

fendere

kloven

cliver

klieven

splijten

rajar

fender

rachar

spaccare

partir

doorklieven

fendir

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kliːv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: cleven

Geërf van Old English: -

Verwante met Nederlands: klieven

Verwante met Duits: klieben

Verwante met Sweeds: klyva

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: kløyva

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: γλύφω

Geërf van Old English: clifian

Geërf van Old English: clīfan

Verwante met Nederlands: kleven

Verwante met Duits: kleben

In summary

From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West Germanic *kleuban, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”).
Doublet of clive. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “carve”).