Cleft

Noun

 * 1) an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting

Verb
cleft



Adjectives for Cleft
vertical; narrow; steep; unsunned; mossy; deep; gaping;

Derived terms

 * anal cleft
 * Cleft of Venus
 * cleft chin
 * cleft grafting
 * cleft foot


 * cleft lip
 * cleft palate
 * cleft stick
 * gluteal cleft

Related terms

 * cleave
 * cleavage


 * cleaver

Thesaurus
aperture, arroyo, bifurcated, bisected, blaze, box canyon, branched, branching, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakage, broaching, burst, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, clearing, cleavage, cleuch, clough, clove, cloven, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, crena, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dehiscent, dell, depression, dichotomous, dike, dimidiate, disaffection, disclosure, disfavor, disruption, disunion, disunity, ditch, divergence, divided, dividedness, division, donga, draw, estrangement, excavation, falling-out, fault, fenestra, fissure, fissured, fissury, fistula, flaw, flume, fontanel, foramen, forked, forking, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gat, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halved, hiatus, hole, hollow, in pieces, in shreds, incision, indentation, inlet, interval, jag, jog, joggle, joint, kerf, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, lacuna, laying open, leak, mangled, moat, mutilated, nick, nock, notch, nullah, open rupture, opening, opening up, orifice, outlet, pass, passage, passageway, pore, quartered, ragged, ramified, ravine, recall of ambassadors, rent, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, riven, rupture, scale, schism, scissure, score, scotch, seam, separation, severed, shredded, slash, slice, slit, slot, space, splinter, splintered, split, stoma, tattered, tear, throwing open, torn, trench, uncorking, unstopping, valley,

Noun

 * Bulgarian: цепнатина, цепка
 * Chinese: 裂縫, 裂缝
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: שסע, בקע
 * Japanese: 裂け目


 * Korean: 골 (gor, -l), 샅 (sat)
 * Polish: szczelina
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: расселина (rasselina)
 * Spanish: hendidura
 * Swedish: klyfta
 * Turkish: