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Rarecleave
The correct spelling is cleave.
How to pronounce cleave
/kliːv/
nounIPA: /kliːv/
Say it like: Clee-ve
The correct spelling is cleave. Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass. For example: "The wings cleaved the foggy air."
Usage Examples
“The wings cleaved the foggy air.”
“The truck cleaved a path through the ice.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
verb
- 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.To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
- 5.To split.
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