cleft

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
    — The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.
  2. A piece made by splitting.
    — a cleft of wood
  3. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
动词 v.
  1. To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
    — This may be so because in most languages the most natural clefting involves NP's, and it is in fact hard in most languages to cleft the verb, although some — notably Kwa languages in West-Africa — allow such clefting.
  2. simple past and past participle of cleave form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. split, divided, or partially divided into two. not-comparable

词形变化

clefts plural clefts present,singular,third-person clefting participle,present clefted participle,past clefted past

词汇关系

衍生词
anal cleft chin cleft cleft chin cleft foot cleftgraft cleft grafting cleft habitus cleft lip cleft of Venus cleft palate cleft sentence cleft stick gluteal cleft intergluteal cleft mental cleft natal cleft noncleft pseudocleft pudendal cleft Rathke's cleft synaptic cleft uncleft watercleft
相关词
cleavage cleave cleaver cloven dimple

词源

From Middle English clift, from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz, equivalent to cleave + -t (“-th”). Compare Dutch klucht (“coarse comedy”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”), German Kluft. See cleave.
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