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Cleavage vs Breakage - What's the difference?

cleavage | breakage |

As nouns the difference between cleavage and breakage

is that cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft while breakage is the act of breaking.

cleavage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
  • (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.
  • (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
  • The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
  • * 1946 , "Cinema: Cleavage and the Code", Time , 5 Aug 1946:
    • Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage " (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections).
  • (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
  • (politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.

    • Related terms

    * cleave * cleft

    Synonyms

    * (separation between breasts) intermammary sulcus

    See also

    * * spathic *

    breakage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of breaking.
  • Something that has been broken.
    • At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages .
  • The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.