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cleave
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kli?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /kliv/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb cl?ofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-Germanic *kleuban?, from Proto-Indo-European *glewb?- (“to cut, to slice”). Doublet of clive. Cognate with Dutch klieven, dialectal German klieben, Swedish klyva, Norwegian Nynorsk kløyva; also Ancient Greek ????? (glúph?, “carve”).
Verb
cleave (third-person singular simple present cleaves, present participle cleaving, simple past cleft or clove or (UK) cleaved or (archaic) clave, past participle cleft or cloven or (UK) cleaved)
- (transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
- The wings cleaved the foggy air.
- (transitive, 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.
- (transitive) To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
- The truck cleaved a path through the ice.
- (transitive, chemistry) To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
- (intransitive) To split.
- (intransitive, mineralogy) Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
cleave (plural cleaves)
- (technology) Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
Related terms
- cleavage
- cleft
Derived terms
- cleaver
Etymology 2
From Middle English cleven, a conflation of two verbs: Old English clifian (from Proto-Germanic *klib?n?) and Old English cl?fan (from Proto-Germanic *kl?ban?), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleyb?- (“to stick”).
Verb
cleave (third-person singular simple present cleaves, present participle cleaving, simple past and past participle cleaved)
- (intransitive) To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.
Translations
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:adhere
References
- cleave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cleave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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suit
English
Etymology
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for sec?ta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s(j)u?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s(j)ut/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: soot (in some dialects)
Noun
suit (plural suits)
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- A full set of armour.
- (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- suite
Translations
See also
References
- suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
- Synonyms: agree, match, answer
Derived terms
- suited and booted
- suit up
- suit yourself
- unsuited
Translations
Anagrams
- ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?i/
- Rhymes: -?i
- Homophone: suis
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present indicative of suivre
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?su.it/, [?s?u?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?su.it/, [?su?it?]
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present active indicative of su?
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English suit.
Noun
suit m (plural suits)
- (Jersey) suit (of clothes)
Synonyms
- fa
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