Word Finder - cleaving

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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.

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To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.

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The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.

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The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.

The bodies of flying creatures are, as a rule, very strong, comparatively light and of an elongated form, - the bodies of birds being specially adapted for cleaving the air.

He was revered by the people cleaving to their altars and their fires, and his birthdays were calendared as festivals, on which greetings were sent to him by young and old.

There is generally a tendency in coals towards cleaving into cubical or prismatic blocks, but sometimes the cohesion between the particles is so feeble that the mass breaks up into dust when struck.

To paraphrase the old saying, the proof of the cleaving is in the living.

Rather than "cleaving to one only" they put a value on honesty and clear communication of emotion in relationships.

But the sight of Tydeus, cleaving open the skull of his dead enemy and sucking out his brains, so disgusted her that she left him to his fate.