What's the difference between cleaver and cleft?

Cleaver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We could confirm Cleaver's results in finding dark repair replication very much reduced, not only in cultured fibroblasts, but also in epidermal cells and lymphocytes.
  • (2) Even then, she did everything well, it seemed; years later, she could still cut meat cleanly with a single cleaver stroke.
  • (3) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
  • (4) The ditziness, the choice between the good man and the bad boy (Darcy and Cleaver), the overbearing parents all seemed infantilising.
  • (5) Cleaver’s pregnancy confined her to a remote guesthouse for most of their stay.
  • (6) You Adebolajo sprinted towards the officers jettisoning the knife and carrying the cleaver above your head as if intent on attacking one or more of them, while you Adebowale went down the adjacent pavement and pointed the gun at the officers.
  • (7) Homologous displacement involving topoisomerase II alone provides a mechanism for the strand switching required in the models of Kato (1977) and Cleaver (1981) in which SCE occur between replicated double strands.
  • (8) I’ve been calling [McCarthy] for about two weeks,” Cleaver said.
  • (9) Last weekend a 54-year-old Indonesian maid was beheaded by sword for killing her female boss with a cleaver.
  • (10) The results of 200 chopping experiments with a big axe and a smaller cleaver on two different chopping-block levels were presented.
  • (11) There were liberation movements in Africa who read our paper and contacted us,” says Kathleen Cleaver.
  • (12) Carlos Clarke shot him as a wild romantic, a sexy figure with a threatening meat cleaver in his hand and the heat of the kitchen dripping down the walls.
  • (13) Police said that in each of the attacks, unidentified assailants hacked the victim to death with machetes or cleavers.
  • (14) These findings, plus earlier ones of Cleaver on the lack of repair replication in XP cells, raise the possibility that unexcised pyrimidine dimers can be implicated in the oncogenicity of ultraviolet radiation.
  • (15) Gary Younge My favourite moment was the spunky, rousing and quite eccentric contribution by the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver.
  • (16) Griff also expanded the group's parameters, calling himself Minister of Information, the title Eldridge Cleaver held in the Black Panthers.
  • (17) (updated below) Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier.
  • (18) The activist's nephew Chen Kegui faces a sentence ranging from 10 years in prison to the death penalty after he brandished a meat cleaver at intruders who burst into his home in Linyi, Shandong province, during the search for his uncle.
  • (19) A series of reagents containing 3- or 4-nitrobenzamido ligands tethered to 9-aminoacridine via variable-length linkers have been prepared and their properties as photochemical DNA cleavers (photonucleases) examined.
  • (20) On Thursday, I wrote about the London killing of a British soldier by two men using a meat cleaver.

Cleft


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Cleave
  • (p. p.) of Cleave
  • () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
  • (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
  • (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
  • (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
  • (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
  • (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
  • (2) Closure of both cleft spaces by orthodontic means was achieved in 20 of the 21 patients in the first group, and in 14 of the 20 patients in the second group.
  • (3) In the absence of prostigmine, increasing the concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft did not change the time constant for decay of end-plate currents.
  • (4) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
  • (5) Three different structures have been observed among the binding proteins: unliganded 'open cleft', liganded 'open cleft', and liganded 'closed cleft'.
  • (6) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
  • (7) At S-L clefts, paranodal-nodal regions, and Schwann cell nuclei, the axonal areas were smaller and the NF densities were higher than at compact myelinated regions.
  • (8) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
  • (9) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
  • (10) The question of how the contraction of adjacent endothelial cells might widen the intercellular clefts and thus regulate permeability is discussed.
  • (11) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
  • (12) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
  • (13) Although maternal ingestion of antiepileptic drugs is strongly suspected of causing congenital defects, particularly oral clefts, the effect of epilepsy itself or a combined effect of drug intake and epilepsy have not been excluded as etiological factors.
  • (14) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
  • (15) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
  • (16) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
  • (17) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
  • (18) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
  • (19) A family is reported of 500 facial cleft index cases, attendees for plastic surgery review at hospitals in northern England.
  • (20) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.