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rift - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shallow area in a waterway.
- noun The backwash of a wave that has broken upon a beach.
- noun A fissure, crack, or opening, as in rock.
- noun A break in friendly relations.
- noun Geology An area where the lithosphere is thinning, typically associated with large faults and grabens.
- intransitive verb To split open; break.
- intransitive verb To cause to split open or break.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Split; specifically, following the general direction of the splitting or checking: said of a log: as, rift pine boards. Compare
quartered , 4. - noun A shallow place in a stream; a fording-place; also, rough water indicating submerged rocks.
- noun In wood-working, a saw in which the cutting-teeth are placed at the ends of radial arms instead of upon the rim of a disk.
- noun In geology, one of the principal cleavages or planes of weakness in building-stone, as quarried, of which the quarrymen take advantage. The two others, commonly occurring at right angles with it and with one another, are called the cut-off and the lift.
- noun A veil; a curtain.
- To rive; cleave; split.
- To make or effect by cleavage.
- To burst open; split.
- To belch.
- noun An opening made by riving or splitting; a fissure; a cleft or crevice; a chink.
- noun A riving or splitting; a shattering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
rive . - intransitive verb To burst open; to split.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To belch.
- noun An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
- noun A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- transitive verb To cleave; to rive; to split
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A chasm or
fissure . - noun A
break in theclouds ,fog ,mist etc., which allowslight through. - verb To form a rift.
- verb obsolete except Scotland and northern UK To
belch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a narrow fissure in rock
- noun a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- noun a gap between cloud masses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Probably alteration of dialectal riff, reef, from Dutch rif, riffe; see reef.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, of Scandinavian origin.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian rift 'breach', Old Norse rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old Norse rypta.
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Examples
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Jack has all that power inside of him ... maybe repairing the rift is the "reason" he was brought into exisitence.
THIS JUST IN: I STILL TEST PONY-POSITIVE rabid1st 2009
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In fact, the rift is so vital, so strong, that there is a specific law and a specific organization that pertains to just this thing.
Reading the Hugo Nominees: The City & The City Big Jim 2010
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Not coincidentally, this rift is deepening even as Gujarat booms economically, with brand-new malls, multi plexes, highways, and private ports transforming it into a pulsing region-state athwart Indian Ocean trade routes.
India’s New Face 2009
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Not coincidentally, this rift is deepening even as Gujarat booms economically, with brand-new malls, multi plexes, highways, and private ports transforming it into a pulsing region-state athwart Indian Ocean trade routes.
India’s New Face 2009
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Here we see what the real rift is about: the Winchester love.
Supernatural Episode 5.05 Spoilers rabid1st 2009
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The only way to avoid the rift is to generalize its teaching.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: Teaching “Berber” in Schools 2009
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The second rift is over whether the French company is required to buy 12 power plants — most of them coal-fired — from Constellation for as much as $2 billion.
New Twist in Nuclear Venture Naureen S. Malik 2010
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The rift is one of the easiest ways for the Doctor to connect with other dimensions.
THIS JUST IN: I STILL TEST PONY-POSITIVE rabid1st 2009
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Not coincidentally, this rift is deepening even as Gujarat booms economically, with brand-new malls, multi plexes, highways, and private ports transforming it into a pulsing region-state athwart Indian Ocean trade routes.
India’s New Face 2009
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Never mind that the rift is now no longer monitored.
TORCHWOOD: CoE...Episode 5...Spoilers! rabid1st 2009
Related Words
synonyms (212)
Words with the same meaning
- abysm
- abyss
- alienation
- arroyo
- belch
- birthmark
- blackhead
- bleb
- blemish
- blister
- box canyon
- breach
- breach of friendship
- break
- breakage
- broach
- bug
- bulla
- burst
- canyon
- catch
- cavity
- chap
- chasm
- check
- chimney
- chink
- chinky
- chip
- cicatrix
- cleavage
- cleave
- cleft
- cleuch
- clough
- cloven
- col
- comedo
- conflict
- coulee
- couloir
- crack
- cracked
- cranny
- crater
- craze
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- cut open
- cwm
- defacement
- defect
- defection
- deficiency
- defile
- deformation
- deformity
- deft
- dehiscent
- dell
- difference
- dike
- disaffection
- disagreement
- disfavor
- disfiguration
- disfigurement
- dispart
- disruption
- distance
- distortion
- disunion
- disunity
- ditch
- divaricate
- divergence
- divide
- dividedness
- division
- donga
- draw
- drawback
- estrangement
- excavation
- failing
- failure
- falling-out
- fault
- faute
- fissure
- fissured
- fissury
- flaw
- flume
- fly open
- foible
- ford
- fracture
- frailty
- freckle
- furrow
- gap
- gape
- gaping
- gappy
- gash
- gorge
- groove
- gulch
- gulf
- gully
- hemangioma
- hiatus
- hickey
- hole
- imperfection
- inadequacy
- incise
- incision
- infirmity
- interruption
- interval
- joint
- keloid
- kink
- kloof
- lay open
- leak
- lentigo
- little problem
- milium
- moat
- mole
- needle scar
- nevus
- notch
- nullah
- ope
- open
- open rupture
- open up
- opening
- part
- pass
- passage
- pimple
- pit
- pock
- pockmark
- port-wine mark
- port-wine stain
- problem
- pustule
- ravine
- recall of ambassadors
- rent
- rime
- rimose
- rimulose
- rip
- rive
- rupture
- scab
- scale
- scar
- schism
- scissure
- scratch
- seam
- sebaceous cyst
- separate
- separation
- shortcoming
- slash
- slice
- slit
- slot
- snag
- something missing
- splinter
- split
- spread
- spread out
- spring open
- strawberry mark
- sty
- swing open
- taint
- tap
- tear
- tear open
- throw open
- track
- trench
- twist
- valley
- verruca
- vesicle
- void
- vulnerable place
- wadi
- wale
- warp
- wart
- weak link
- weak point
- weakness
- weal
- welt
- wen
- whitehead
hernesheir commented on the word rift
A belch. --A Provincial Glossary, 1787.
Century Dictionary lists "to belch" under the noun definitions of rift.
May 5, 2011