What's the difference between closen and cloven?

Closen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make close.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors have closen to elaborate a system which makes it possible to deliver conventional fractionated irradiation, using a non-invasive stereotactic head frame called "Laitinen stereo-adapter".
  • (2) Speculation was rife earlier this month that Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev, who in January bought 75.1% of the London Evening Standard from DMGT, was on the brink of further closening ties between the two publishing companies by agreeing a deal to buy the Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers.
  • (3) The closen areas were previously photographed, radiographed and used as control.

Cloven


Definition:

  • () of Cleave
  • (p. p. & a.) from Cleave, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pilot trials are described in which BHS, a Czechoslovak fasciolicide, was employed for mass treatment of fasciolosis in cloven-hoofed animals in wild-animals' reserves at the rate of 30 mg body weight using BHS-medicated feed.
  • (2) The cloven hooves of this species are very mobile and the cranial tips of the hooves are the first parts to make contact with the ground.
  • (3) English bishops were intrigued by this wicked man, of whom they had previously never heard, and asked questions that implied they imagined him to have horns and cloven feet.
  • (4) Perhaps it's significant that one of the projects Brenton found himself beached on was an ill-starred attempt to adapt Calvino's 1952 novel Il Visconte Dimezzato ( The Cloven Viscount ): a whimsically fantastical story about a 17th-century aristocrat who is cut in half by a cannonball.
  • (5) Carrie's mother, in her religious fervour, frequently refers to – either directly, or through Carrie's prior indoctrination – "the black man … his cloven feet striking red sparks from the cement".
  • (6) The avant-garde Margiela brand (its signature pieces include cloven-toed boots) was purchased in 2002 by Diesel founder Renzo Rosso and is now part of his company OTB (Only The Brave).
  • (7) Seventy-six species belonging to 29 genera were collected from 320 samples of cloven-hooves and horns of goats and sheep.

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