sinkholenoun(HOLE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Holes, hollows and dips
anti-crack
aperture
blistered
chink
cranny
cratering
gauge
hollow
interstice
leak
leaky
micropore
microporosity
microporous
piercing
pinprick
shaft
spyhole
thumbhole
void

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Geography: caves, cracks & crevices

cleft | American Dictionary

cleft
noun[ C ]
us/kleft/
an opening or crack, esp. in a rock or the ground
cleft
adjective
us/kleft/
divided into two or more parts:
He was strikingly handsome, with dark, wavy hair, a cleft chin (= with a deep vertical line), and penetrating blue eyes.

Examples of cleft

cleft
A portion of the transmitters (factor r) returns from the synaptic cleft into the presynaptic hair cell.
The atrioventricular septal defect had been effectively repaired, and the residual left atrioventricular valve had a deep "cleft" in its septal aspect.
These are arranged in two subdomains which are separated by the active site cleft.
There appears to be an increasing incidence of facial clefts over time.
There is no reason for intervention because of the facial cleft alone and any decisions should be made on accepted obstetric grounds.
These represented 3.4% of the total number of facial clefts (isolated and cases with multiple anomalies) and 9.4% of cases with multiple anomalies.
Clearance of glutamate in the synaptic cleft depends on passive diffusion and active uptake by glutamate transporters.
Males are more frequently affected with hare lip and cleft palate and pyloric stenosis while females are more prone to congenital dislocation of the hip.
The macro-textual function of the various cleft constructions is shown to dominate their more narrowly semantic characterizations.
This cleft is lined with a number of conserved sequence motifs that are characteristic of helicases.
It may be significant that until, the prepositional subordinator that allows topicalization, is also able to introduce negative clauses and, marginally, clefts.
These cases had mainly to do with source sentences containing relative or cleft clauses and fronted or dislocated material.
The scheduled valvoplasty in one patient was cancelled after the initial diagnosis of a cleft mitral valve was excluded.
In addition, any cleft anterior to the muscles is closed by rearrangement of nasal and oral mucosa.
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