Cleft
[kleft] or [klɛft]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin).
(adj.) having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib .
手打:威尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(imp.) of Cleave
(p. p.) of Cleave
(-) imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
(a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
(a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
(n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
(n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
(n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
編輯:米兰达
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Crevice, chink, fissure, rift, break, breach, gap, cranny, crack, interstice, opening, fracture, chap, chasm.
校對:诺艾尔
解釋/意思:
n. an opening made by cleaving or splitting: a crack fissure or chink.—Also Clift (B.).
pa.t. and pa.p. of Cleave.
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例句/造句/用法:
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Tis cleft-wood, that's what 'tis, said Timothy Fairway. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The Austrian crown is a sort of cleft tiara, having in the middle a semicircle of gold supporting a mound and cross; the tiara rests on a circle with pendants like those of a miter. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Venn looked gloomy, threw--the die was seen to be lying in two pieces, the cleft sides uppermost. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He bore in his right hand a tallow candle stuck in the end of a cleft stick. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- These are carved pieces of metal in the lock which fit into clefts or grooves in the key and prevent the lock from being opened except by its own proper key. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
整理:卢修斯