Rift vs Diverge - What's the difference?
rift | diverge |
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
* 1916 , :
To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
As verbs the difference between rift and diverge
is that rift is to form a or rift can be to belch or rift can be while diverge is .As a noun rift
is a chasm or fissure.rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)
Anagrams
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English
Verb
(diverg)- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
- The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
- The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
- The sequence diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.