Cleve Definition

noun

(Now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.

Wiktionary

(Now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

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Origin of Cleve

  • From Middle English cleve, from Old English cleofa, cleafa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleubh- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.

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Cleve Sentence Examples

  • The atomic weight was determined by Cleve.

  • Cleve, the first to make a really thorough study of these elements and their compounds.

  • Cleve proposed to divide the " rare earth " metals into two groups, (1) " perfectly characterized "; (2) " not yet thoroughly characterized."

  • He established the existence of two new elements, samarium and gadolinium, since investigated more especially by Cleve, to whom most of our knowledge on this subject is due.

  • Cleve, Lecoq de Boisbaudran and others into erbia, holmia, thulia and dysprosia, but it is still doubtful whether any one of these four splitting products is a single substance.

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