different between cleft vs marking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Etymology 1

From Middle English clift, from Old English ?eclyft, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)kluftiz. Compare Dutch klucht (“chaotic”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”) cave, den, German Kluft. See cleave.

Noun

cleft (plural clefts)

1. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVI:

     Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.

2. A piece made by splitting.

   a cleft of wood

3. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

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• dimple

Verb

cleft (third-person singular simple present clefts, present participle clefting, simple past and past participle clefted)

1. (linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."

Related terms

• clefting
• cleft sentence

Etymology 2

Verb

cleft

1. simple past tense and past participle of cleave

Adjective

cleft (not comparable)

1. split, divided, or partially divided into two.

   Synonym: cloven

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??k??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??k??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k??

Verb

marking

1. present participle of mark

Noun

marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings)

1. The action of marking.
2. A mark.
3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
4. (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

Derived terms

• marking blue
• marking error
• marking fire
• marking out
• price marking
• submarking