Canyon vs Cleft - What's the difference?
canyon | cleft | Related terms |
A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
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An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
A piece made by splitting.
A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
(Webster 1913)
(cleave)
Canyon is a related term of cleft.
As nouns the difference between canyon and cleft
is that canyon is canyon while cleft is an opening, fissure, or v-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.As a verb cleft is
(cleave).canyon
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
Synonyms
* dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley * See alsoDerived terms
* box canyon * concrete canyon * Copper Canyon * Grand CanyonAnagrams
*cleft
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cleft of wood
