Cleave

Verb

 * 1)  To split or sever something or as if with a sharp instrument.
 * The wings cleaved the foggy air.
 * 1)  To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
 * 2)  To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
 * The truck cleaved a path through the ice.
 * 1)  To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
 * 2)  To split.
 * 3)  Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

Noun

 * 1)  Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.

Related terms

 * cleavage
 * cleft

Verb

 * 1)  To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
 * 2)  To be faithful.

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