cleft
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6.1
- noun
- /klɛft/
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hendidura
- Maybe you've got a kid with a cleft palate and you can't afford the surgery.
- branchial cleft
- Cleft anomalies
- Cleft cysts
Those vesicles can fuse with the end of the Axon and vomit the contents, those neurotransmitters, into the synaptic cleft, into that little space between neurons.
- Those vesicles can fuse with the end of the Axon and vomit the contents, those neurotransmitters, into the synaptic cleft, into that little space between neurons.
- Maybe you've got a kid with a cleft palate and you can't afford the surgery.
- The synaptic cleft Zoloft and Paxil, those are SSR is Lexapro is an SSRI.
Examples
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The remaining patient had an isolated cleft of the soft palate.
Academic text (2015) -
I found myself stretched out in a cleft where the breeze was coming in off the sea.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the cleft of that rock over there.
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In the cleft, behind the rock.
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A cleft... in the rock of the world that I could hide in.
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The soldiers led the way to a narrow cleft in the stone wall.
Fiction book (2001) -
We were climbing through a cleft in the rock which kept bending one way and the other goes around the mountain.
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The soldiers led the way to a narrow cleft in the stone wall, making it easier for us to pass through.
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We were climbing through a cleft in the rock, cautiously navigating the steep and rocky terrain.
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From the Chimney Rock trailhead, a good trail leads into the deep cleft of Chimney Rock Canyon, where the views are breathtaking.
Synonyms
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1.0
A long narrow opening in a surface
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4.2
A narrow opening in rock or a wall where things can hide
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7.0
A long narrow crack in rock or the ground
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4.8
A small narrow gap or crack in a wall where things can hide
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6.4
A small narrow opening that lets light or air through
A long narrow crack in rock or a part of the body
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.1
A split in the roof of the mouth from birth that makes eating and speaking hard
- Specialized
A narrow opening in a fish's throat where water passes for breathing
- Specialized
A foot born with a deep gap between the third and fourth toes that extends into the foot
- Specialized
A slit in the throat of fish and other water animals that lets water pass for breathing
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cleft comes from an old English verb meaning 'to split', the same root as cleave, so picture a rock split open with a thin gap where light shines through. That's why cleft means a narrow opening or crack.