Cleaves vs Cleaver - What's the difference?
cleaves | cleaver |
(cleave)
To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
* Shakespeare
(mineralogy) To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
(chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
To split.
(mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
(technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
As a verb cleaves
is third-person singular of cleave.As a noun cleaver is
a squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones etc.cleaves
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Verb
(head)cleave
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) cleven, from the (etyl) strong verb .Verb
- The wings cleaved the foggy air.
- O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
- The truck cleaved a path through the ice.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) cleofian, from (etyl) . Cognates include German kleben, Dutch kleven.Verb
(cleav)cleaver
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Noun
(en noun)- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
