cleave

Betekenis (Engels)

1. To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
2. 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. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
4. (chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
5. To split.
6. Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

kloven

klieven

doorklieven

doorhakken

cut asunder

chip at

join with

adhere to

break forth

break in pieces

break into pieces

cut in half

cut open

pierce through

split lengthwise

tear open

strike blows

prehend

quadrisect

be suddenly rent asunder

tear asunder

attach

be smashed

be torn

break in two

burst open

devide

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/kliːv/

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”).