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nouna personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
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"the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"nouna gap between cloud masses
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nouna narrow fissure in rock
Definition that contains rift
- saving characterized by thriftiness
- plate a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- holmes English geologist and supporter of the theory of continental drift (1890-1965)
- hudson English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)
- kenya a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya
- plankton the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
- afloat aimlessly drifting
- drumlin a mound of glacial drift
- adrift aimlessly drifting
- leeway (of a ship or plane) sideways drift