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Definition: CLEAVING |
CLEAVINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Cleave |
Date "CLEAVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | The splitting or tendency to split, along planes determined by the crystal structure. It is always parallel to a possible crystal face; b)the measure of the ease and distinctness with which a mineral may be separated on planes parallel tothe crystal faces(RF=ICID). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Splitting a crystal along a cleavage plane. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CLEAVING |
| English words defined with "CLEAVING": cleavage, Cleftgraft ♦ Diffission, Dystome ♦ Frow ♦ Incerative ♦ Peritomous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CLEAVING": broken stone ♦ Complement 3 Nephritic Factor ♦ diamond cleavage, diamond cleaving, diamond cutting ♦ Factor IXa ♦ Interstitial Collagenase ♦ riving knife ♦ splitting knife. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
George Eliot | The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen, his tongue cleaving to his palate, bowed his head, praying with his heart. |
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Health | While APP is embedded in the cell membrane, proteases (a kind of enzyme, which are proteins that cause or speed up chemical reactions in the body) act on particular sites, cleaving the APP into protein fragments. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CLEAVING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "CLEAVING" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 81.82% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.64% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "CLEAVING". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ishmachiah | N/A | Biblical | Cleaving to the Lord |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cleaving | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CLEAVING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 劈开 (Cleave, Cleaved). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | spaltning (cleavage, decomposition, dissociation, division, fission, nuclear fission, rifting, scission, segregation, splitting), kloevning (rifting, ripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | splijten (burst, split), splijtbaarheid (cleavage, fissility, rifting), kloven (split). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | clivage (cleavage), débitage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | klebend (adhesive, Pasting, sticking, taping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχίσιμο (cleavage, fission, rent, scission, slit, split, tear, tearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "בק (attached to, attachment, cement, glue, gum, partisan, paste, sticking to), בקיע" (breach, cracking, fissure, hatching, herniation, splitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hasadó kőbél (cleaving grain of stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | clivaggio (rifting), spaccatura (crack, disruption, rift, split, splitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 쪼갬 (splitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eavingclay clivagem (cleavage). (various references) troceo, exfoliado (rifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CLEAVING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clamavi, claving, cleaing, cleating, Cleavon, cloving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-v" | |
-1 letter: angelic, anglice, calving, galenic, leaving, vealing. | |
-2 letters: alevin, alvine, caving, genial, glaive, glance, incage, inlace, lacing, laving, linage, vagile, valine, veinal, venial, vineal. | |
-3 letters: acing, agile, algin, alien, align, aline, alive, angel, angle, anile, anvil, calve, cavie, cavil, clang, clave, clavi, clean, cline, cling, elain, ganev, gavel, genic, given, glace, glean, ileac, ingle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-v" | |
+1 letter: clavering, evangelic, vigilance. | |
+2 letters: vigilances. | |
+3 letters: cavaliering, evangelical, overcalling. | |
+4 letters: convalescing, curveballing, devocalizing, evangelicals, evangelistic, overclaiming, overcleaning, overclearing, revictualing, vesiculating. | |
+5 letters: cantilevering, evangelically, galvanometric, overbalancing, overbleaching, recultivating, revictualling, volcanologies, vulcanologies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 45 41 56 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. . .- ...- .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L E A V I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0045 0041 0056 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3746393556434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, chinês, chino |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, "랑스, francês, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, 독일, alemão, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, 그리스, grego, griego |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | 西伯来, 希伯來語 , joods, Hebreeuws, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, hebreo |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, húngaro |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, 포르투갈, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, 영국, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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