cleavage

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[ US /ˈkɫivədʒ, ˈkɫivɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /klˈiːvɪd‍ʒ/ ]

NOUN

the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)
the state of being split or cleft
there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members
the act of cleaving or splitting
(embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum
the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules

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How To Use cleavage In A Sentence

The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
From where I am, c'est-à-dire, * sea level, in the belly of the crowd, I see a lot of bare midriffs, cleavage and pouty lips. Escapade
And it's not like viewers saw nipple or areolae, viewers saw cleavage. Dr. Logan Levkoff: Those Bad Breasts - Take II (Katy Perry Edition)
With the bumsters' new focus on butt-cleavage within the society of the naked ape, push-up brassieres will have to compete aggressively to bring attention back to the chest.
(D) Fifth cleavage: the third-quartet micromeres are formed by dexiotropic division of macromeres; cells of both the first and second micromere quartets divide also dexiotropically, but with a slight delay. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
As dissolution proceeds, a honeycomb texture may result, particularly where a mineral has near rectilinear cleavages.
And leave it to A-house to come up with the term ass cleavage anyway. A trace of ass cleavage: obscene in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Further, the broken site at the TT4 gene contained a potential topoisomerase I cleavage site.
He proposed a dress code that would ban any display of cleavage, thighs, backs, shoulders and midriffs.
Pang PT, Teng HK, Zaitsev E, Woo NT, Sakata K, et al. (2004) Cleavage of proBDNF by tPA/plasmin is essential for long-term hippocampal plasticity. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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