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cleave 音標拼音: [kl'iv] vt. 劈開,分開
vi. 劈開,分開,粘著,依戀 劈開,分開劈開,分開,粘著,依戀 cleave v 1: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; " cleave the bone" [ synonym: { cleave}, { split}, { rive}] 2: make by cutting into; " The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" 3: come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; " The dress clings to her body"; " The label stuck to the box"; " The sushi rice grains cohere" [ synonym: { cling}, { cleave}, { adhere}, { stick}, { cohere}] Cleave \ Cleave\ ( kl[= e] v), v. t. [ imp. { Cleft} ( kl[ e^] ft), { Clave} ( kl[= a] v, Obs.), { Clove} ( kl[= o] v, Obsolescent); p. p. { Cleft}, { Cleaved} ( kl[= e] vd) or { Cloven} ( kl[= o]" v' n); p. pr. & vb. n. { Cleaving}.] [ OE. cleoven, cleven, AS. cle[' o] fan; akin to OS. klioban, D. klooven, G. klieben, Icel. klj[= u] fa, Sw. klyfva, Dan. kl[" o] ve and prob. to Gr. gly` fein to carve, L. glubere to peel. Cf. { Cleft}.] 1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. [ 1913 Webster] O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To part or open naturally; to divide. [ 1913 Webster] Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. -- Deut. xiv. 6. [ 1913 Webster]
Cleave \ Cleave\ ( kl[= e] v), v. i. [ imp. { Cleaved} ( kl[= e] vd), { Clave} ( kl[= a] v, Obs.); p. p. { Cleaved}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Cleaving}.] [ OE. cleovien, clivien, cliven, AS. cleofian, clifian; akin to OS. klib[= o] n, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. kl[ ae] be, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. kl[ imac] fa to climb. Cf. { Climb}.] 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. [ 1913 Webster] My bones cleave to my skin. -- Ps. cii. 5. [ 1913 Webster] The diseases of Egypt . . . shall cleave unto thee. -- Deut. xxviii. 60. [ 1913 Webster] Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin' s rotten trunk, concealing its defects. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. [ 1913 Webster] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. -- Gen. ii. 24. [ 1913 Webster] Cleave unto the Lord your God. -- Josh. xxiii. 8. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. [ Poetic.] [ 1913 Webster] New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Cleave \ Cleave\, v. i. To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost. [ 1913 Webster] The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst. -- Zech. xiv. 4. [ 1913 Webster] 173 Moby Thesaurus words for " cleave": accelerate, activate, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, amputate, associate, atomize, ax, bifurcate, bisect, bite, bombard, branch, breach, break, break to pieces, broach, bunch, butcher, by two, carve, check, chink, chop, clasp, cleave to, clench, clinch, cling, cling to, clip, clot, cluster, clutch, coagulate, cohere, combine, congeal, conglomerate, conjoin, crack, crevasse, cross- bombard, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, demolish, dichotomize, dimidiate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dispart, dissect, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, divorce, embrace, excise, fission, fissure, fly open, fork, fracture, fragment, freeze to, furrow, gap, gash, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, groove, grow together, hack, halve, hang on, hang on to, hang together, hew, hold, hold fast, hold on, hold on to, hold tight, hold together, hug, in half, incise, jigsaw, join, keep hold of, lance, lay open, link, make mincemeat of, mass, never let go, nip, nucleize, ope, open, open up, pare, part, persist, pick to pieces, prune, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, ramify, reduce to rubble, rend, rent, rift, rip, rive, rupture, saw, scissor, separate, set, sever, shatter, slash, slice, slit, slot, smash, smash the atom, snip, solidify, split, split in two, spread, spread out, spring open, stay, stay put, stick, stick to, stick together, subdivide, sunder, swing open, take apart, take hold of, tap, tear, tear apart, tear open, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, throw open, total, transect, trench, unbuild, undo, unite, unmake, whittle, wrack up, wreck
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