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# rift

«rift» in Mova's school dictionary: **A crack or gap, often in rock, trees, clouds or the ground** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural rifts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crack or gap, often in rock, trees, clouds or the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rift/#m1)

2) A split or quarrel between friends or families. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rift/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a gap in trees through which a traveller glimpses stars; in talk, a split between two people

### examples

- He watched the stars through the rifts in the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rift/#x1)
- A rift opened in the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rift/#x2)
- The quarrel caused a rift between the brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rift/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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