noun
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Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
verb
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To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
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The wings cleaved the foggy air.
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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.
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To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
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The truck cleaved a path through the ice.
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To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
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To split.
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Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
Examples of cleave in a Sentence
He saw Jilian's blow cleave the Traveler apart the moment he materialized down the hall.
The function of t-PA is to cleave a particular peptide bond in plasminogen, forming plasmin (which is itself a serine protease ).
The enediyne chromophores are interesting because of their ability to bind and cleave nucleic acids resulting in potent anti-cancer activity.
In 1535, combating Laurentius Valla, he did not deny the spiritual incapacity of the will per se, but held that this is strengthened by the word of God, to which it can cleave.
Luciferase This molecule is an enzyme which reacts with ATP to cleave luciferin, its substrate.
There is also a good view up the cleave with Fur tor standing sentinel on the far horizon.
Tom can not cleave with apron strings still attached... ... ... ... ... ... ... .
Raise the stone and there thou shalt find me, cleave the wood and there am I."
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The address (which is extremely important for its representation of the religious conditions) is made the occasion for a solemn covenant whereby the people agree to cleave to Yahweh alone.
These Sigurd forged into a new sword, so hard that with it he could cleave the anvil and so sharp that it would sever a flock of wool floating against it down stream; and, so armed, he sought and slew the dragon.
This flowage will help to orientate the particles in the direction of movement, and, operating conjointly with the flattening above explained,will accentuate the liability to cleave in a definite set of planes.
Instructions were given to the French Catholics to break with monarchical principles, and both externally and internally to cleave to the Republic as representing the best form of constitutional government.
The work required to cleave asunder the parts of the first fluid which lie on the two sides of an ideal plane passing through the interior, is per unit of area 2T 1, and the free surface produced is two units in area.
There, in the recesses of Piedmont, where the streams of the Pelice, the Angrogne, the Clusone and others cleave the sides of the Alps into valleys which converge at Susa, a settlement of the Waldensians was made who gave their name to these valleys of the Vaudois.
Here prevailing granite and diabase give rise to a complicated mountain system through which the rivers cleave their way in a curved and irregular course.
Haue; the root is seen in "hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from "hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g.
Taking their rise on the plateau formation, or in its outskirts, they flow first along lofty longitudinal valleys formerly filled with great lakes, next they cleave their way through the rocky barriers, and finally they enter the lowlands, where they become navigable, and, describing wide curves to avoid here and there the minor plateaus and hilly tracts, they bring into watercommunication with one another places thousands of miles apart.