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# cleft

«cleft» in Mova's school dictionary: **a narrow crack or split in rock or ground, often deep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (clefts); adjective (old use, split)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cleft is a narrow crack or split in rock or ground, often deep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleft/#m1)

2) (old use) Split open, as in a cleft stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleft/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a narrow gap in rock or a mountain that a creature passes through

### examples

- The goat jumped across the cleft in the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleft/#x1)
- Snow lay in the mountain clefts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleft/#x2)
- We hid in a cleft in the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cleft/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Thou hast made the land to shake, Thou hast cleft it; heal the breaches thereof; for it tottereth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.979/)
- [In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.754/)
- [Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1029/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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