Difference between Cleave and Split

What is the difference between Cleave and Split?

Cleave as a noun is flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass. while Split as a noun is the acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind.

Cleave

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To split or sever something or as if with a sharp instrument. To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting: cleave a path through the ice. To pierce or penetrate. To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules. Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division. To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto. To be faithful.

Split

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind.A split-finger fastball.A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.To share; to divide.To leave.to separate or break up.

Example sentence: Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!

We hope you now know whether to use Cleave or Split in your sentence.

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