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US
/ˈkɫivədʒ, ˈkɫivɪdʒ/
]
[ UK /klˈiːvɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /klˈiːvɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts)
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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
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