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# cliff

«cliff» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a high, steep wall of rock or earth, often at the edge of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cliff, cliffs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cliff is a high, steep wall of rock or earth, often at the edge of the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#m1)

2) A cliffhanger is a story or episode that ends at an exciting moment so you want to know what happens next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Song of Songs it is a rocky hiding place, where the beloved dove is hidden. Interpretation: The tradition reads the Song as a love story between God and Israel, so the dove in the rock is Israel, whom God longs to see and hear in prayer. In the primary lessons: In geography lessons cliffs are formed by erosion as waves wear the rock away; in safety lessons you stay away from cliff edges, which can crumble. Phrases: «the edge of the cliff», «cliff top», «chalk cliffs», «cliff path», «cliffhanger».

### examples

- O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.' (Writings SNG.2.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x1)
- The White Cliffs of Dover are made of chalk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x2)
- Stay away from the edge of the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x3)
- Seabirds nest on the cliffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x4)
- We walked along the cliff path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x5)
- The waves crash against the cliffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x6)
- The book ended on a cliffhanger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x7)
- The cliff edge was crumbling, so they put up a fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x8)
- The Goat looked over the edge of the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/#x9)

### note

Countable. Double f. Safety: cliff edges can give way without warning, and the bottom can be cut off by the tide; keep behind fences and check tide times on beaches under cliffs.

### In the corpora

- [Cartoons break the rules of physics on purpose to be funny, like running off a cliff and falling only after looking down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/16/)
- [The cliff-jumping lemming myth was spread by a 1958 Disney film in which the film makers pushed lemmings over a cliff.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/8/)
- [Lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose; the famous 1958 film scene was staged by bringing lemmings in and pushing them off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/5/)
- [Some books and quizzes still repeat the cliff myth, because people copy facts without checking where they came from.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/16/)
- [The cliff story spread from a 1958 nature film in which people pushed lemmings off a cliff for the camera.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cliff» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cliff/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.