different between rut vs cleft

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rug?tus, from rug?re (“to roar”).

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

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Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • What piety forbids the lusty ram
     Or more salacious goat to rut their dam

Synonyms

• (be in mating season): blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
• (have sexual intercourse): do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
• (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

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Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: groove, furrow

2. (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: routine

3. (figuratively) A dull routine.

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Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (transitive) To make a furrow.

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Further reading

• Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• RTU, URT, UTR, tur

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)

Etymology

From Old High German r?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/

Adjective

rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine rut or ruh, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

Usage notes

• The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.

French

Etymology

From Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rug?tus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yt/

Noun

rut m (plural ruts)

1. rut (sexual excitement)

Derived terms

• en rut

Further reading

• “rut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• rút

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rut]
• Hyphenation: rut
• Rhymes: -ut

Interjection

rut

1. gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German r?t (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German r?t (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?-.

Akin to German rot, Old Saxon r?d, Old Dutch r?d (modern Dutch rood)

Adjective

r?t

1. red

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

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See also

• 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

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