Synonyms of the word cleave


CLEAVEADHERE - ADJOIN - CLING - COHERE - CONTACT - CREATE - MAKE - MEET - RIVE - SPLIT - STICK - TEAR - TOUCH

cleave

  • v. (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
  • v. (transitive, mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one…
  • v. (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
  • v. (intransitive) To split.
  • v. (intransitive, mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
  • n. (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques,…
  • v. (intransitive) To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.

adhere

  • v. (intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
  • v. (intransitive) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

adjoin

  • v. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field,…

cling

  • n. Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
  • n. adherence; attachment; devotion.
  • v. To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
  • v. To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to dry up or wither.
  • v. (figuratively, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about.
  • v. To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell.

cohere

  • v. To stick together physically, by adhesion or figuratively by common purpose.
  • v. To be consistent as part of a group.

contact

  • n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • n. The establishment of communication (with).
  • n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  • n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
  • n. (informal) A contact lens.
  • n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  • n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
  • n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
  • v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
  • v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

create

  • v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
  • v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
  • v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
  • v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
  • v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
  • adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

make

  • v. (transitive, heading) To create.
  • v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  • v. To constitute.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  • v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
  • v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  • v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  • v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  • v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  • v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
  • v. To appoint; to name.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
  • v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  • v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  • v. To enact; to establish.
  • v. To develop into; to prove to be.
  • v. To form or formulate in the mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
  • v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
  • v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
  • n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  • n. How a thing is made; construction.
  • n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  • n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  • n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  • n. A person's character or disposition.
  • n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
  • n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
  • n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
  • n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
  • n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  • n. (slang, military) A promotion.
  • n. A home-made project.
  • n. (basketball) A made basket.
  • n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

meet

  • v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
  • v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
  • v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
  • v. To satisfy; to comply with.
  • v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  • n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
  • n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
  • n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. A meeting.
  • n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
  • n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
  • adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

rive

  • v. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  • v. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
  • v. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
  • n. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

split

  • adj. Divided.
  • adj. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
  • adj. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
  • adj. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price…
  • adj. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than the usual eighths.
  • adj. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred…
  • n. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
  • n. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
  • n. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
  • n. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
  • n. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading…
  • n. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
  • n. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between…
  • n. A split shot or split stroke.
  • n. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
  • n. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard …
  • n. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
  • n. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
  • n. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
  • n. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt…
  • n. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  • v. (intransitive) Of something solid particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a…
  • v. (transitive) To share; to divide.
  • v. (slang) To leave.
  • v. to separate or break up.
  • v. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
  • v. To burst out laughing.
  • v. (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
  • v. (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and…

stick

  • n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
  • n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
  • n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
  • n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
  • n. (sports) A stick-like item.
  • n. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically.
  • n. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking,…
  • n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
  • n. A measure.
  • v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
  • n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
  • n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
  • n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
  • v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
  • v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
  • v. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
  • v. (intransitive) To persist.
  • v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
  • v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
  • v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
  • v. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
  • v. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
  • v. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
  • v. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
  • v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
  • v. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
  • v. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
  • v. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by…
  • v. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
  • v. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
  • adj. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
  • n. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

tear

  • v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
  • v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
  • v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
  • v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
  • v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
  • v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
  • v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
  • v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
  • n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
  • n. (slang) A rampage.
  • n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
  • n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
  • n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
  • n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

touch

  • v. Primarily physical senses.
  • v. Primarily non-physical senses.
  • v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  • v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  • n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  • n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  • n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  • n. A little bit; a small amount.
  • n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  • n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  • n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  • n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  • n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  • n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  • n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
  • n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
  • n. The children's game of tag.
  • n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  • n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  • n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

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