cleft

• adj.割れる；裂ける
• n. 割れる；裂ける
• v. cleave; separate（cleaveの過去形および過去分詞）
• n.（裂ける）人名；（英）裂け目

cleave（裂く）から。

cleft (n.)

1570s, alteration (by influence of cleft, new weak past participle of cleave (v.1)), of Middle English clift (early 14c.), from Old English geclyft (adj.) "split, cloven," from Proto-Germanic *kluftis (cognates: Old High German and German kluft, Danish kl?ft "cleft"), from PIE *gleubh- (see glyph). In Middle English anatomy, it meant "the parting of the thighs" (early 14c.).

cleft (adj.)

late 14c., past participle adjective from cleave (v.1)). Cleft palate attested from 1828.

1. a cleft in the rocks

岩石の亀裂

2.Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.

彼らの赤ちゃんはウサギ唇整形手術を受けた.

3.The climber fell down a cleft in the rocks.

登山者が岩の割れ目に落ちた。

4.I hid the message in a cleft in the rock.

私は情報を石の割れ目に隠した。

5.The ice cracked and he slumped into the cleft .

氷が割れ、彼は亀裂の中に落ちた。