cleave

  • 31Cleave — This interesting surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and has two possible interpretations. Firstly, the surname may be a locational name from Cliff in Hampshire and Warwickshire, North and South Cliff in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Cliffe in Kent …

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  • 32cleave — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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  • 33cleave to — literary 1》 stick fast to. → cleave …

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  • 34cleave — I verb 1) cleaving wood for the fire Syn: split (open), cut (up), hew, hack, chop up; literary rive 2) cleaving a path through the traffic Syn: plow, drive, bulldoze, carve II …

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  • 35Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette — (also known by contemporaries simply as the Weekly Police Gazette) was a British weekly newspaper published by John Cleave between 1834 and 1836. It was one of the first and most popular unstamped newspapers to mix political news with coverage of …

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  • 36Cleave (Band) — Cleave Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock Gründung 1999 Website …

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  • 37cleave in two — index dichotomize Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 38Cleave (fiber) — A cleave in an optical fiber is a deliberate, controlled break, intended to create a perfectly flat endface, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fiber. Since there are no crystalline planes in glass, this process is not cleavage in the… …

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  • 39cleave, cleavage —    To cleave is to split or divide. Curiously, cleave can also bear the opposite meaning: to adhere closely, cling, stick …

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  • 40cleave — I. intransitive verb (cleaved or clove; also clave; cleaved; cleaving) Etymology: Middle English clevien, from Old English clifian; akin to Old High German kleben to stick Date: before 12th century to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and… …

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