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Examples of cleave
cleave
All of them assiduously study God's Torah and loyally cleave to its commandments.
From the timesunion.com
It talks about how you should leave your mom and dad and cleave to your spouse.
From the washingtonpost.com
The intestine resists your bite for a split second, then pops as you cleave it.
From the travel.nytimes.com
The Biblical mandate is that a man must leave his mother and cleave to a wife.
From the kansas.com
We still cleave diamonds, especially big ones, into suitable pieces before sawing.
From the usatoday.com
Now we are old and less bold it soothes me to know that my coevals cleave to codes.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Those who cleave to the latter view include many conservative American politicians.
From the economist.com
When people get married, they leave their parents'orbit and cleave to their spouse.
From the washingtonpost.com
It is now possible to make ribozymes that will specifically cleave any RNA molecule.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
- Make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
- Cling: come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
- A cleave in an optical fiber is a deliberate, controlled break, intended to create a perfectly flat endface, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fiber. ...
- Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass; To split or sever something or as if with a sharp instrument; To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic ...
- (cleaved) Having to do with the appearance of cells when viewed under a microscope. The nucleus of cleaved cells appears divided or segmented.
- (Cleaving) by Julie Powell: Rough Cuts
- To break phospho-diester bonds of double-stranded DNA, usually with a type II restriction endonuclease. a.k.a. to cut or digest.
- To split a rough diamond along the grain, usually using a metal knife in a kerf to divide the stone in two.
