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"cleave the bone"verbseparate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrumenttype of:
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verbcome or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
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"The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"verbmake by cutting into
Definition that contains cleave
- barong a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines
- cleavable capable of being cleaved
- galium annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
- dolabriform having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver
- genus galium annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
- dolabrate having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver
- restriction site the specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNA
- endonuclease a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes