Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To climb; ascend.
- A Middle English form of
cleave . - noun Burdock or agrimony.
- noun An obsolete form of
cliff .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
topographic surname - someone who lived near acliff ( Old English clif). - proper noun A male
given name derived from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
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Examples
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C. S. Lewis published poems under the name Clive Hamilton to protect his reputation as an Oxford don.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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Boris Karloff and Colin Clive, spawned a host of successors: Stephen Jones, in The Illustrated
Movies 2010
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We had just finished recording a great version of the song and I called Clive Davis and said that we had the song ready to go, and he told us that Johnny Winters was just about to release a version of the song. laughs Sometimes, good ideas are just swimming around in the same stream.
Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011
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Fringe wanders across this line on a regular basis (although props to John Nobel for playing the best mad scientist since Colin Clive's Dr. Frankenstein).
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We had just finished recording a great version of the song and I called Clive Davis and said that we had the song ready to go, and he told us that Johnny Winters was just about to release a version of the song. laughs Sometimes, good ideas are just swimming around in the same stream.
Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011
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The short story it's based on was in Clive's classic Books Of Blood which made him a star author, and it's quite memorable.
Clive Barker Asking For Helping Saving Midnight Meat Train « FirstShowing.net 2008
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No tactical voting required unless Clive is seen as the main challenge.
Prediction - West of Scotland Jeff 2007
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I became very interested in Clive's new concept of low frequency correlation that he called cointegration.
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I called Clive, though, to find out who he'd blabbed to.
The Magyar Venus Hamilton, Lyn 2004
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Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge.
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