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verbklɛft past participle of cleave
adjective klɛftklɛft Split, divided, or partially divided into two. Example sentencesExamples - Painted five years earlier, the nine children of Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein each shared the dark eyes and cleft chin of their father.
- She had his sharp nose and round face with the cleft chin.
- The British Museum is in a bit of a cleft stick over Africa.
- It can help to discuss the problems with people who have had similar experiences or by having access to psychological support available from specialist cleft teams.
- The septal deviation may be so severe that it partially or completely obstructs the nasal passage on the cleft side.
- A member of the craniofacial team introduces the new parents to the parent-to-parent network available to parents of infants with cleft deformities.
- Advances in neonatology and pediatric anesthesia now have made it possible to perform cleft repair surgery during the neonatal period.
- Feelings of fear, guilt, resentment, inadequacy, shame, and grief are common among parents and family members of babies born with cleft deformities.
- He prefers the Teifi coracle because he likes working with cleft wild woods such as willow, hazel and ash rather than pre-sawn materials.
- And born with severely bowed legs and cleft feet, he walked with metal braces.
- Many orthopedic conditions, just like dimples or cleft chins, are just normal variations of human anatomy that don't require treatment.
- Preoperative diagnosis of ectopic thymic tissue is rare; most cases are clinically misinterpreted as branchial cleft remnants or cystic hygromas.
- He said that hair lip and cleft palette ran in his family.
- These children also often have special facial features, cardiac defects and cleft anomalies that often make their speech hypernasal.
- Latham advocates lateral maxillary advancement on the cleft side using presurgical orthopedic treatment prior to lip repair.
- A second patient brought mobile phone images of his partner's episodic natal cleft rash, which had defied GP and dermatological diagnosis for 3 years.
- One previous project was the Smile Campaign, which gave reconstructive surgery to children with cleft palettes and those with burns.
- Toe and cleft ulceration developed de novo in patients treated with four layer compression bandaging for venous ulceration.
- The accessible cleft volume is reduced by an additional third to 0.051% due to the occupation of this space by protein.
- Mostly, he saw Bert's fists moving rhythmically, seeming inexorably drawn to Marlon's cleft chin like magnets drawn to metal.
Synonyms split, divided, cloven, parted, separated
Phrases be (or be caught) in a cleft stick Be in a situation in which any action one takes will have adverse consequences. Example sentencesExamples - To the east of Bhutan, in Burma, Buddhism is caught in a cleft stick: since colonial days Buddhist monks have been involved in politics.
- They're caught in a cleft stick situation where they either face being beaten up by dealers or arrested by the police for selling drugs.
- The general, adept in running with the hare and hunting with the hound, is now caught in a cleft stick.
- But in fact the administration is in a cleft stick.
- Yes, but on either way it seems to me you are caught in a cleft stick.
- As a result, the Sri Lankan ruling class has been caught in a cleft stick.
Rhymes bereft, deft, eft, heft, klepht, left, reft, theft, weft noun klɛftklɛft 1A fissure or split, especially in rock or the ground. the third peak is divided from the eastern one by a deep cleft Example sentencesExamples - One photogenic house turned out to be set in a cleft of hills so steep that it felt half-buried; several others had been sold months before.
- There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks.
- Rhinopomatids live in treeless arid regions and roost in caves, rock clefts, wells, houses, and pyramids.
- The plates are separated below by an angular cleft, the pterygoid fissure, the margins of which are rough and articulate with the pyramidal process of the palatine.
- Where the sky would be is a uniform grayish blank, which defines both the far horizon (the ridge line) and the uppermost cleft of the rock with one long, graceful curve.
- We ate lunch above the east fork of Coal Wash before dropping into the deep gorge via a tricky cleft in the cliff.
- Its northern opening was located in a small cleft in the hillside at the bottom of an arroyo within eyeshot of the Texas border.
- The kraal had been ripped asunder, and the ground within the rock cleft and by the cave entrance was littered with dead sheep.
- Suddenly we were standing three hundred feet up, in a cleft in the vertical valley wall, looking out onto the Upper Grose Valley.
- In others the coast is worn and cut by deep clefts.
- You plunge into a winding cleft whose strata swirl across cliffs like a serrated knife through butter.
- It is said that this water came from the cleft in the cliffs at Kovalam.
- Somewhat protected from the ravaging winds of the bay is the area known as Carmel Valley, a cleft in the hills that still gets its share of marine coolness.
- The gypsy chief led the way through a stand of trees to a cleft in the mountain, a clearing of flat gray rock overlooking a deep forested valley.
- A thin cleft in the rock split the ridge like a wound.
- Several large, speckled stingrays ducked out of the current in small clefts in the channel wall.
- As I stop, crouching behind a tree to conceal myself, my foot dislodges some loose soil to reveal a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks.
- These roadless hills have always been a refuge for rogues and reivers, a lawless area in times past where cattle-rustlers would hide their stolen beasts in secret clefts and hollows.
- It felt as if they took most of the night to reach the little green stream in the cleft of the valley, but Bligh knew it was no more than twenty minutes.
- He also noticed, growing out of a cleft in a rock in front of him, a strawberry plant with one ripe berry.
Synonyms split, slit, crack, fissure, crevice, chasm, opening, rift, break, fracture, rent, breach, gash cranny, interstice, furrow, indentation gap, hole, pit, void, crater - 1.1 A vertical indentation in the middle of a person's forehead or chin.
the enticing cleft in his chin Example sentencesExamples - He ran his thumb down the cleft of his chin, self-consciously, over a small vertical shaving nick on the cleft of his chin.
- She noticed that he had a small cleft on his chin that she'd never noticed before.
- There was a small cleft in his strong square chin and long dark eyelashes framed eyes the same rich dark brown as his hair.
- The cleft at the forehead is .3 cm wide and 1.2 cm in depth, and the edges were carefully rounded.
- Her eyes trailed upwards and stopped at the small stubborn cleft in his square chin.
- I have got photos of my client with these red lips and a big old cleft on his chin which he didn't have previously.
- The image of him was quickly fading from Kathleen's mind, but she remembered his firm chin, with a decided cleft down its middle.
- His deep Italian accent made him look all the more adorable as did the small mole left on the cleft of his dimpled chin.
- If a particular landmark on the ear is a health indicator, why not the cleft in a chin or the tilt of a brow, asks McCarthy.
- Suddenly his hand appeared on my chin, namely the rounded edges of his thumb ran back and forth against the cleft of my chin, then rested motionless right in the center.
- And the last one with the cleft in his chin who's all around nice and funny… his name is Marco.
- 1.2 A deep division between two parts of the body.
Example sentencesExamples - Ulceration mainly occurred on the dorsum of the medial three toes and interdigital clefts, occasionally extending to the sole of the foot.
- Children with clefts often don't have enough tissue in their mouths, and the tissue they do have isn't fused together properly to form the roof of their mouths.
- It is rare that tissue is needed from elsewhere in the body to close a cleft.
- Stillbirth rates were not different in areas with fluoridation, nor were rates of trisomies, Down's syndrome, neural tube defects, and facial clefts.
- Oral-facial clefts are birth defects in which the tissues of the mouth or lip don't form properly during fetal development.
- There is no nerve plexus in the clefts between these muscle layers.
- It diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to the end organ adrenergic receptor.
- Many children who have clefts continue to work with a speech therapist throughout their grade-school years.
- Two major types of oral-facial clefts are cleft lip/palate and isolated cleft palate.
- The focus in the middle ear cleft may present as painless otorrhoea.
- These clefts are usually incomplete clefts of the lip only.
- Significant areas of fraying, hemorrhage, granulation tissue, or an unusually deep cleft also suggest lesions.
- The management that can be used is either to place some sort of obturator in the cleft or to close the cleft with available tissue of the roof of the mouth.
- He or she will feel for pulses behind your inside ankle bone or in the cleft between your big and next toe.
- Post-op, patients are asked to refrain from sitting for about seven to 10 days because pressure can re-open the surgical incision, hidden in the cleft of the buttocks.
- This cleft is relatively deeper in larger individuals.
- The surgeon will make an incision on each side of the cleft from the lip to the nostril.
- Jynx felt at the barely noticeable cleft, tracing her fingers down it until about hip-height.
- For this reason, many children with clefts have myringotomy tubes surgically inserted into their ears at the time of their first reconstructive surgery.
- Some studies have linked benzodiazepine use during pregnancy to facial cleft and skeletal abnormalities in the fetus.
Origin Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave1. The form of the word was altered in the 16th century by association with cleft1. klɛftkleft past and past participle of cleave
adjectiveklɛftkleft Split, divided, or partially divided into two. Example sentencesExamples - The septal deviation may be so severe that it partially or completely obstructs the nasal passage on the cleft side.
- These children also often have special facial features, cardiac defects and cleft anomalies that often make their speech hypernasal.
- The British Museum is in a bit of a cleft stick over Africa.
- A member of the craniofacial team introduces the new parents to the parent-to-parent network available to parents of infants with cleft deformities.
- Mostly, he saw Bert's fists moving rhythmically, seeming inexorably drawn to Marlon's cleft chin like magnets drawn to metal.
- And born with severely bowed legs and cleft feet, he walked with metal braces.
- A second patient brought mobile phone images of his partner's episodic natal cleft rash, which had defied GP and dermatological diagnosis for 3 years.
- He prefers the Teifi coracle because he likes working with cleft wild woods such as willow, hazel and ash rather than pre-sawn materials.
- One previous project was the Smile Campaign, which gave reconstructive surgery to children with cleft palettes and those with burns.
- The accessible cleft volume is reduced by an additional third to 0.051% due to the occupation of this space by protein.
- Latham advocates lateral maxillary advancement on the cleft side using presurgical orthopedic treatment prior to lip repair.
- Feelings of fear, guilt, resentment, inadequacy, shame, and grief are common among parents and family members of babies born with cleft deformities.
- It can help to discuss the problems with people who have had similar experiences or by having access to psychological support available from specialist cleft teams.
- Advances in neonatology and pediatric anesthesia now have made it possible to perform cleft repair surgery during the neonatal period.
- Painted five years earlier, the nine children of Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein each shared the dark eyes and cleft chin of their father.
- Many orthopedic conditions, just like dimples or cleft chins, are just normal variations of human anatomy that don't require treatment.
- She had his sharp nose and round face with the cleft chin.
- Toe and cleft ulceration developed de novo in patients treated with four layer compression bandaging for venous ulceration.
- He said that hair lip and cleft palette ran in his family.
- Preoperative diagnosis of ectopic thymic tissue is rare; most cases are clinically misinterpreted as branchial cleft remnants or cystic hygromas.
Synonyms split, divided, cloven, parted, separated
nounkleftklɛft 1A fissure or split, especially one in rock or the ground. the third peak is divided from the eastern one by a deep cleft Example sentencesExamples - The plates are separated below by an angular cleft, the pterygoid fissure, the margins of which are rough and articulate with the pyramidal process of the palatine.
- Somewhat protected from the ravaging winds of the bay is the area known as Carmel Valley, a cleft in the hills that still gets its share of marine coolness.
- As I stop, crouching behind a tree to conceal myself, my foot dislodges some loose soil to reveal a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks.
- He also noticed, growing out of a cleft in a rock in front of him, a strawberry plant with one ripe berry.
- Its northern opening was located in a small cleft in the hillside at the bottom of an arroyo within eyeshot of the Texas border.
- We ate lunch above the east fork of Coal Wash before dropping into the deep gorge via a tricky cleft in the cliff.
- Several large, speckled stingrays ducked out of the current in small clefts in the channel wall.
- The gypsy chief led the way through a stand of trees to a cleft in the mountain, a clearing of flat gray rock overlooking a deep forested valley.
- You plunge into a winding cleft whose strata swirl across cliffs like a serrated knife through butter.
- A thin cleft in the rock split the ridge like a wound.
- Suddenly we were standing three hundred feet up, in a cleft in the vertical valley wall, looking out onto the Upper Grose Valley.
- These roadless hills have always been a refuge for rogues and reivers, a lawless area in times past where cattle-rustlers would hide their stolen beasts in secret clefts and hollows.
- One photogenic house turned out to be set in a cleft of hills so steep that it felt half-buried; several others had been sold months before.
- It is said that this water came from the cleft in the cliffs at Kovalam.
- There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks.
- The kraal had been ripped asunder, and the ground within the rock cleft and by the cave entrance was littered with dead sheep.
- Where the sky would be is a uniform grayish blank, which defines both the far horizon (the ridge line) and the uppermost cleft of the rock with one long, graceful curve.
- Rhinopomatids live in treeless arid regions and roost in caves, rock clefts, wells, houses, and pyramids.
- In others the coast is worn and cut by deep clefts.
- It felt as if they took most of the night to reach the little green stream in the cleft of the valley, but Bligh knew it was no more than twenty minutes.
Synonyms split, slit, crack, fissure, crevice, chasm, opening, rift, break, fracture, rent, breach, gash - 1.1 A vertical indentation in the middle of a person's forehead or chin.
the enticing cleft in his chin Example sentencesExamples - He ran his thumb down the cleft of his chin, self-consciously, over a small vertical shaving nick on the cleft of his chin.
- The cleft at the forehead is .3 cm wide and 1.2 cm in depth, and the edges were carefully rounded.
- Suddenly his hand appeared on my chin, namely the rounded edges of his thumb ran back and forth against the cleft of my chin, then rested motionless right in the center.
- If a particular landmark on the ear is a health indicator, why not the cleft in a chin or the tilt of a brow, asks McCarthy.
- And the last one with the cleft in his chin who's all around nice and funny… his name is Marco.
- The image of him was quickly fading from Kathleen's mind, but she remembered his firm chin, with a decided cleft down its middle.
- There was a small cleft in his strong square chin and long dark eyelashes framed eyes the same rich dark brown as his hair.
- She noticed that he had a small cleft on his chin that she'd never noticed before.
- Her eyes trailed upwards and stopped at the small stubborn cleft in his square chin.
- His deep Italian accent made him look all the more adorable as did the small mole left on the cleft of his dimpled chin.
- I have got photos of my client with these red lips and a big old cleft on his chin which he didn't have previously.
- 1.2 A deep division between two parts of the body.
Example sentencesExamples - Stillbirth rates were not different in areas with fluoridation, nor were rates of trisomies, Down's syndrome, neural tube defects, and facial clefts.
- These clefts are usually incomplete clefts of the lip only.
- It is rare that tissue is needed from elsewhere in the body to close a cleft.
- The surgeon will make an incision on each side of the cleft from the lip to the nostril.
- It diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to the end organ adrenergic receptor.
- Oral-facial clefts are birth defects in which the tissues of the mouth or lip don't form properly during fetal development.
- For this reason, many children with clefts have myringotomy tubes surgically inserted into their ears at the time of their first reconstructive surgery.
- Significant areas of fraying, hemorrhage, granulation tissue, or an unusually deep cleft also suggest lesions.
- Ulceration mainly occurred on the dorsum of the medial three toes and interdigital clefts, occasionally extending to the sole of the foot.
- Jynx felt at the barely noticeable cleft, tracing her fingers down it until about hip-height.
- Some studies have linked benzodiazepine use during pregnancy to facial cleft and skeletal abnormalities in the fetus.
- This cleft is relatively deeper in larger individuals.
- The management that can be used is either to place some sort of obturator in the cleft or to close the cleft with available tissue of the roof of the mouth.
- The focus in the middle ear cleft may present as painless otorrhoea.
- Many children who have clefts continue to work with a speech therapist throughout their grade-school years.
- Children with clefts often don't have enough tissue in their mouths, and the tissue they do have isn't fused together properly to form the roof of their mouths.
- There is no nerve plexus in the clefts between these muscle layers.
- Two major types of oral-facial clefts are cleft lip/palate and isolated cleft palate.
- He or she will feel for pulses behind your inside ankle bone or in the cleft between your big and next toe.
- Post-op, patients are asked to refrain from sitting for about seven to 10 days because pressure can re-open the surgical incision, hidden in the cleft of the buttocks.
Origin Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave. The form of the word was altered in the 16th century by association with cleft. |