Rift

Definition: Rift

Rift

Noun

1. A gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds".

2. A narrow fissure in rock.

3. A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rift" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Geography

Mining

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Synonyms: Rift

Disjunction

Fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.

Adjective: disjoined; Verb: discontinuous; abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated; Verb: insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft.

Interval

Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.

Crosswords: Rift

Portuguese (median valley, rift).

Tripping the Rift (2003)

The Rift (2002)

Rift (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Rift Valley Fever (reference)

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Books

• Decision at Thunder Rift (reference)

• Pacific Rift (reference)

• Rift (reference)

• Rift in Time (Rift in Time #1) (reference)

• The Rift (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Rift (reference)

• Voltron - The Third Dimension - A Rift in the Force (Vol. 3) (reference)

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Music

• Rift (reference)

• Soul Rift [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• The Hidden Rift (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dark Rift (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rift Valley Fever (RVF) virus is a member of the genus Phlebovirus in the family Bunyaviridae, first reported in livestock in Kenya around 1900. Credit: CDC.

Carrying lumber up rift in cliffs at east end of Amlia Island Note boat at beach - shore party shows as barely visible specks at top of photo Party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camera station on east rift of Mauna Kea Cooperative studies between C&GS and USGS Deployed off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Deep Tow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Chief Scientists Dick Hey and Bob Tyce. Cruise to the propagating rift on the Galapagos Ridge. On R/V THOMAS WASHINGTON. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The first map demonstrating the continuity of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge median rift valley as published in: "The Floors of the Oceans. I. The North Atlantic," by Bruce C. Heezen, Marie Tharp, and Maurice Ewing. 1959. Plate 20. NOAA Central Library Call No. G83. H43 1959. Vol. 1. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Split into Pressure Ridge Rift hikeCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds.

Rift HoleCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds.

Pressure Ridge in Wapi Flow Rift HikeCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds.

Juniper in Wapi Flow Rift HikeCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds.

Ice Stalagmites Rift HikeCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an acute, fever-causing viral disease that affects domestic animals (such as cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels) and humans. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

In July several editors of Amharic weeklies were detained briefly for false reporting of a rift between the Prime Minister and his Foreign Minister. (references)

Kenya

Many of the rural residents displaced by the violent ethnic clashes in Rift Valley between 1991 and 1993 still have not returned to their homes and remain displaced in urban areas. (references)

Economic History

Malawi

The Great Rift Valley traverses the country from north to south. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

In early May in the Kericho District of Rift Valley Province, a mob attacked a suspected murderer and set fire to many houses in revenge for the killing of a local businessman. (references)

Minorities

Kenya

In 1999 a presidential Commission on Ethnic Clashes, a government-appointed panel of three judges formed in 1998, submitted to President Moi its report on the cause of ethnic clashes that occurred in the Rift Valley in 1992 and 1997, the Coast province in 1997, and the areas of Molo and Laikipia in 1998. Many of the hearings were public, and witnesses often directly accused local politicians of abetting the combatants, although they rarely provided other than hearsay evidence. (references)

Political Economy

Kenya

Many more were injured or maimed, and tens of thousands were displaced, mainly from the Rift Valley. (references)

Political Rights

Kenya

Vote buying and violence also marred the by-election on the same day in January in Kapenguria, Rift Valley Province; KANU retained the seat. (references)

Travel

Egypt

There is a low risk of exposure to exotic diseases in Egypt such as Rift Valley Fever (RVF). RVF, which flares up in parts of the country from time to time, is a mosquito-borne disease of domestic animals that can infect humans. (references)

Kenya

Highway banditry is common in much of Northeastern Province, significant portions of Eastern Province, the northern part of Coast Province, and the northern part of the Rift Valley Province, which are remote and sparsely populated areas. (references)

Women

Kenya

The press reported severe injuries to several girls from the practice of FGM. According to a December 8 report by the Government and UNICEF, 38 percent of women nationwide have undergone FGM. The percentage of girls undergoing the procedure is as high as 80 to 90 percent in some districts of Eastern, Nyanza, and Rift Valley provinces, according to the women's rights organization Maendeleo Ya Wanawake ("Development of Women" in Swahili). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "rift": create a rift ♦ rift in the clouds ♦ rift valley ♦ Rift Valley fever ♦ Rift Valley Fever Virus. Additional references.

Beginning with "rift": rift-faulting, rift-related.

Ending with "rift": post-rift, pre-rift.

Albanian

plasë (chink, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, leak, rent), hapje (aperture, disclosure, dissection, inauguration, open, opening, orifice, span, spreading, stretch, tablet, tabloid, troche, vent, venthole), e çarë (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cranny, crevice, cut, rent, shake, slit, slot), çarje (break, breaking, cleavage, cleft, cut, dissection, fissure, fracture, gap, gulf, incision, opening, orifice, rent, slash, split, splitting, wedge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تشقق (chap, cleave, crackle, rend, seam, splinter), ‏صدع (breach, chasm, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fault, fissure, flaw, rent, split), ‏إنصدع (crack), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спор (altercation, argument, argumentation, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, difference, ding-dong, disputation, dispute, dissension, fight, jar, polemic, run in, strife, variance, velitation, word, words), разрив (disruption, divorcement, interruption, rent), разцепвам (burst, cut open, fork, gash, rend, split, split off), разкъсвам (bait, dismember, lacerate, pick, pull, rend, rip up, rupture, tear, tear asunder, tear off, tear open, tear up), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, cracking, fissure, flaw, leak, rent, shake, slash, slit, slot), отчуждаване (alienation, estrangement, expropriation, sequestration), недоразумение (disagreement, imbroglio, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, unpleasantness), пукнатина (break, chap, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gash, leak, shake, split, spring), плитчина (bar, cay, flat, hurst, mud-bank, shallow, shelf, shoal, slew). (various references)

Chinese 

裂口 (nick, RIP, RIPS). (various references)

Czech

roztrhnout (rip, split, tear), trhlina (breach, chink, cleft, crack, crevasse, crevice, gap, gash, Lacuna, rent, rip, rupture, snag, split, tear), puknout (crack, snap, split), puklina (cleft, gash, split). (various references)

Danish

sprækkedal (fault trough, median valley, rift valley), midterdal (median valley), midt- (median valley), forkastning (fault, faulting, loose rock dump, riprap, rip-rap, rock filling, seismic fault), den naturlige spalteretning, den naturlige kloeveretning, bruddal (fault trough, median valley, rift valley). (various references)

Dutch

riftdal (median valley), rift (median valley), verschuiving (shift), groefleger, breuklijn (cleat, fault, fracture path), breuk (fraction, fracture). (various references)

Farsi 

چاک دادن (Scotch, Slash, Slit, Strip, Tear, Unseam), چاک (Cut, Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rip, Scotch, Slit, Slot, Split, Suture, Tear), خراش (Abrasion, Attrition, Graze, Irritation, Scotch, Scrape, Scuff), شکافتن (Chink, Cleave, Excision, Fracture, Pierce, Rip, Rive, Slat, Slit, Split), شکاف دهنده , دریدگی , بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle), بریدگی (Cut, Gash, Hyphen, Jag, Notch), برش دادن (Cutout, Radius, Section). (various references)

Finnish

valtameren pohjahauta (median valley), välirikko (breach, rupture), syvänmeren hauta (median valley), murtorako. (various references)

French

vallée axiale, se scinder, se fissurer (rip), scinder, paraclase, fissure (rip), fil d'une roche, fente, fendre (rip, Rive), faire fendre, faille, crevasse, éclaircie. (various references)

German

Spalte (break, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, col, column, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fudge, gap, hole, pillar), Riss (break, chap, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, gap, interstice, laceration, rip, ripped, sketch, sketch plan, split, tear). (various references)

Greek 

σχισμή (cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, placket, slit, slot, split). (various references)

Hebrew 

קרע (rag, rupture, schism, shred, snag, tag, tatter, tear), בקע (crevasse, fissure, fragment, hernia, rupture, split), ס�"ק (chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, fissure, flaw, fracture, slit, split). (various references)

Hungarian

repedés (chop, cleft, crack, cranny, fission, fissure, flake, flaw, rictus, slit, spring, tear), rés (aperture, chink, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, hole, leak, missing link, mortice, mortise, opening, pool, Rive, scupper, slit, slot, split). (various references)

Indonesian

celah (aperture, chink, cleft, crevice, fissure, gap, slit, slot, space). (various references)

Italian

spaccatura (crack, disruption, split, splitting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �目 (chasm, crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, split), リ�"ア山猫 (liberation, libido, Libyan wildcat, lift, liftback, living, living kitchen, living room, living room set, living stock, makeover, rebate, reboot, reference, reference guide, referencer, refinance, refine, reflation, reflect, reflection, reflective, reform instructor, reform plan, refrain, refresh, refreshment, repeat, repeater, replace, replicate, replication, reply, repression, reprint, reproduction, revision, rib, rib roast, ripple, rivet, updating), 割目 (chasm, crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, split), 割れ目 (chasm, crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, split), 切目 (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, pause, section), 切れ�" (break, interval), 切れ目 (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, pause, section). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リフト (lift), きれま (break, interval), きれめ (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, pause, section), われめ (chasm, crack, crevice, fissure, interstice, split). (various references)

Manx

skort (chasm, cleft, cleft in rock, fissure, rent), skor, bruightooil (rifting), bruight (belch, eructation), brooighe (eructation, pyrosis, to bring up wind, waterbrash). (various references)

Pig Latin

iftray.(various references)

Portuguese

falha (absence, brack, break, fail, failure, imperfection, lack, miss, muff, rub, shortcoming). (various references)

Romanian

rupturã (breach, break, breaking, cleavage, discontinuance, disruption, failure, hole, inrush, rag, rend, rent, rip, rupture, slit, tear), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear, uproot), spinteca (cleave, disembowel, gut, rend, rip, slice, split), fisurã (cleft, crevice, fault, fissure, loophole, split), despica (bifurcate, check, cleave, rend, rip, Rive, slit, splinter, split), crãpãturã (breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, fissure, flaw, loophole, Nick, rent, slit, slot, split, yawn), crãpa (break, burst, chap, check, cleave, crack, flaw, half-open, hook it, slit, splinter, split, split a log, spring, wolf). (various references)

Russian 

трещина (cavity, chap, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, fissure, flaw, fracture, joint, rent, slit, split, vug). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

procep (fissure), prekid dobrih odnosa, naprslina (crack, leak, split). (various references)

Spanish

rajarse (back down, bottle out, chap, climb down, rush off, splash out), valle axial (median valley), hender (cleave, crack, gash, rend, ride, Rive, saw, slit, Spall), hendedura (burst, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, gash, incision, slit, split), grieta (burst, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, flaw, seam, shake, split), falla (failure, fault, flaw, shift, void), escisión (cleavage, fission, rent, scission, split, split off), escindirse (split), escindir, desavenencia (estrangement, friction, misunderstanding, trouble, unpleasantness), crucero principal, claro (apparent, break, bright, bright interval, broad, celestial, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, clearing, clearly, crystal clear, dainty, definite, direct, discharged, distinct, evident, fair, gap, glade, it is clear, light, lightsome, liquid, obvious, of course, opening, pellucid, plain, precise, sure, thin, transparent, unshadowed, weak). (various references)

Swedish

reva (crack, reef, rip, runner, tear, wound). (various references)

Thai

ความแตกร้าว. (various references)

Turkish

yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, scissure, shake, slit, slot, split, tear, vent), aralık (ajar, aperture, crack, daylight, Dec, December, gangway, gap, half-open, hiatus, Interspace, interstice, interval, Lacuna, separation, space, spacing, time), ara açıklığı, açıklık (aperture, baldness, berth, clarity, clearance, clearness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, directness, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, erectness, evidence, fairness, gap, interstice, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, palpability, patency, perspicuity, plainness, preciseness, publicity, roundness, space, spread, straightforwardness, the open, vacancy, yard), çatlatmak (chap, crack, craze, flaw, split), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched). (various references)

Ukrainian

ущелина (couloir, crevice, defile, hope, notch, nullah, opening, pass, purgatory, ravine), розщеплюватися (splinter), розщеплювати (rend, slit, splinter), розколюватися (crack, fissure, split), розколювати (crack, polarize, split, sunder), тріщина (break, chap, chink, chop, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw), перекат. (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẽ hở (chink, interstice, loop-hole), đường nứt rạn, đá (bond, splinter). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rift": rifted, rifting, riftless, rifts. (additional references)

Words ending with "rift": adrift, drift, grift, shrift, snowdrift, spendthrift, spindrift, thrift. (additional references)

Words containing "rift": driftage, driftages, drifted, drifter, drifters, driftier, driftiest, drifting, driftingly, driftpin, driftpins, drifts, driftwood, driftwoods, drifty, grifted, grifter, grifters, grifting, grifts, shrifts, snowdrifts, spendthrifts, spindrifts, thriftier, thriftiest, thriftily, thriftiness, thriftinesses, thriftless, thriftlessly, thriftlessness, thriftlessnesses, thrifts, thrifty, unthrifty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rift" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bift, brift, brisfit, cift, ift, irf, irif, jift, kift, orft, prift, Qift, rafo, raut, reeft, reft, rfi, riaf, riat, rict, Riet, Rieti, rif, rifa, riffy, rifty, rify, riht, riit, rilt, rint, ript, rit, ritt, rmif, roft, ruft, rvfa, ryft, trift, uift, zift. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: frit.

-1 letter: fir, fit, rif.

-2 letters: if, it, ti.

+1 letter: afrit, drift, first, firth, flirt, frith, frits, fritt, fritz, fruit, grift, refit, rifts.

+2 letters: adrift, afrits, drifts, drifty, ferity, filter, firsts, firths, fitter, flirts, flirty, forint, forrit, fortis, fracti, fright, friths, fritts, fruits, fruity, grifts, lifter, maftir, profit, ratify, refits, resift, rifest, rifted, shrift, sifter, strife, tariff, thrift, titfer, trifid, trifle.

+3 letters: airlift, antifur, barefit, brutify, certify, drifted, drifter, fainter, fairest, faitour, fatbird, fattier, ferrite, fertile, fighter, figwort, filbert, filters, firelit, firepot, firmest, firstly, fitters, fixture, flirted, flirter, flitter, florist, floruit, flutier, flytier, footier, forfeit, forints, forties, fortify, frailty, frantic, freight, frigate, frights, frisket, fritted, fritter, fritzes, fruited, fruiter, furmity, furtive, fustier, gratify, grifted, grifter, heftier, indraft, infarct, infract, ingraft, introfy, lifters, loftier, maftirs, metrify, mortify, niftier, nitrify, outfire, parfait, petrify, piefort, presift, profits, rafting, ratafia, ratfink, ratfish, rectify, refight, resifts, rifting, rotifer, shifter, shrifts, sifters, snifter, sportif, stiffer, stifler, strifes, surfeit, swifter, tariffs, terrify, thrifts, thrifty, titfers, torrify, traffic, trefoil, trifled, trifler, trifles, trifold, triform, tuftier, turfier, turfing, turfski, vitrify, wiftier.