different between clive vs clime

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cliven, from Old English cl?fan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *kl?ban? (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleyb?- (“to lubricate, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleven (“to adhere, stick”), German kleben (“to adhere, stick”), Swedish kliva (“to climb, stalk”), Icelandic klífa (“to climb, ascend”).

Verb

clive (third-person singular simple present clives, present participle cliving, simple past clived or clove, past participle clived or cliven)

1. (intransitive) To climb; ascend.

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English clife (“clifers (cleavers), burdock”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kleve, klijve (“burdock”), Middle Low German klive (“burdock”).

Noun

clive (plural clives)

1. Burdock or agrimony.

Etymology 3

From Middle English cliven, from Old Norse klyfja, klufða (“to split, chop, cleave”), from Proto-Germanic *kleuban? (“to split, pick”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewb?- (“to cut, carve, peel”). Cognate with Old English cl?ofan (“to cleave, split, separate”). Doublet of cleave.

Verb

clive (third-person singular simple present clives, present participle cliving, simple past and past participle clived)

1. (transitive) To split; separate; cleave; chop.
   • 1990, John Ashurst, Francis G. Dimes, Conservation of building and decorative stone: Volume 1:

     After 'frosting' the stone may be 'clived' or split along the bedding planes. Once clived, the thin slabs are dressed for use and sold as Collyweston Slates, for use as tilestones.

   • 2007, Robert Ader, Psychoneuroimmunology:

     IL-1? presents the peculiarity of being produced in the form of a biologically inactive precursor, known as proIL-1?, that needs to be clived at an aspartate residue by a specific enzyme, named interleukin-1? converting enzyme (ICE) or [...]

Anagrams

• velic

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: clivent, clives

Verb

clive

1. first-person singular present indicative of cliver
2. third-person singular present indicative of cliver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cliver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cliver
5. second-person singular imperative of cliver

Latin

Noun

cl?ve

1. vocative singular of cl?vus

Middle English

Noun

clive

1. Alternative form of clyf

English

Etymology

From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek ????? (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from ????? (klín?, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kla?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m
• Homophone: climb

Noun

clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)

1. A particular region defined by its weather or climate.

   After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.

   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:

     My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
     Where rougher climes a nobler race di?play,

2. Climate.

   A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.

Anagrams

• melic