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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Here we see what the real rift is about: the Winchester love.
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The only way to avoid the rift is to generalize its teaching.
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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.
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The rift is one of the easiest ways for the Doctor to connect with other dimensions.
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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.
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Never mind that the rift is now no longer monitored.
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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