How to pronounce“cleave”in English
Kathleen Cleaver was a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Cleaver was the communications secretary and the first female member of Black Panther’s main decision-making body.
Ericka Huggins had multiple leadership roles - becoming a leader in the Los Angeles chapter and founding the New Haven, Connecticut chapter.
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Definitions of “cleave”
To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
“The wings clove the foggy air.”
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.
Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
A cut (slash) or a cut location, either naturally or artificially.
“There are very striking scenes on some of the lesser streams at this portion of their course. The deep gorge of the Lyd is famous. In the "cleaves," or cleft rocky valleys of Lustleigh and of the Tavy, many a long summer day may be spent with delight; and the Erme, which descends by Ivy Bridge, is not less worthy of a pilgrimage. As the rivers leave the moorland they are crossed by venerable and picturesque bridges which, like that of Harford in our illustration, sometimes afford an admirable framework for the distant landscape.”
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