
1) Altercation result 2) Argument upshot 3) Band falling-out 4) Beginning of the end 5) Breach 6) Breach in friendly relations 7) Break 8) Break in diplomacy 9) Break in friendly relations 10) Break in friendship 11) Break in relations 12) Chasm 13) Clear breach 14) Crevice 15) Deep valley 16) Difference of opinion
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1) Breach 2) Chasm 3) Crevice 4) Fissure 5) Gap 6) Gorge 7) Gulf 8) Interval 9) Schism 10) Separation 11) Severance 12) Split
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- a gap between cloud masses
- a narrow fissure in rock
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
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Region where the crust has split apart, usually marked by a rift valley (e.g., East African Rift, Rhine Graben).
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In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the Earth`s crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-graben with normal faulting and rift-flank uplifts mainly on one side. Where rifts remain above s....
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• (v. i.) To belch. • (n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford. • (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. • p. p. of Rive. • (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. • (v. i.) To burst open; to split.
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A long, narrow, high and straight cave passage controlled by planes of weakness in the rock. Cf. fissure.
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A shallow or rocky place in a stream, forming either a ford or a rapid.
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A long narrow trough, generally on a continent, bounded by normal faults, a graben with regional extent. Formed in places where the forces of plate tectonics are beginning to split a continent. (Example: East African Rift Valley).
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Crack in a rock. On a large scale it refers to the separation of plates on fault areas, forming a depression in the earth.
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Rift intransitive verb 1. To burst open; to split.
Shak. « Timber . . . not apt to
rif with ordnance.»
Bacon. 2. To belch. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Rift noun [ Written also
reft .] [ Danish
rift , from
rieve to rend. See
Rive .]
1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
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Rift transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Rifted ;
present participle & verbal noun Rifting .] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to
rift an oak or a rock; to
rift the clouds.
Longfellow. « To dwell th...
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Rift obsolete
past participle of
Rive .
Spenser. Found on
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split crack dissensionÂ
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Zone between two diverging tectonic plates. The mid-oceanic ridge is an area where such plate divergence is occurring.
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A long, narrow crack in the entire thickness of the Earth's crust, which is bounded by normal faults on either side and forms as the crust is pulled apart.
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The most pronounced direction of splitting or cleavage of a stone. Rift and grain may be obscure, as in some granites, but are important in both quarrying and processing stone.
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A fracture or crack in a planet's surface caused by extension. On some volcanoes, subsurface intrusions are concentrated in certain directions; this causes tension at the surface and also means that there will be more eruptions in these 'rift zones.'
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n. A long, narrow crack in the entire thickness of the Earth's crust, which is bounded by normal faults on either side and forms as the crust is pulled apart; v. To split the Earth's crust; rift zone- n. The area on continents where a trough bounded by normal faults is forming; the site of crustal extension, similar to that which occurs at mid-ocea...
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n. A long, narrow crack in the entire thickness of the Earth's crust, which is bounded by normal faults on either side and forms as the crust is pulled apart; v. To split the Earth's crust; rift zone- n. The area on continents where a trough bounded by normal faults is forming; the site of crustal extension, similar to that which occurs at mid-ocea...
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[
n] - a gap between cloud masses 2. [n] - a narrow fissure in rock
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A valley formed at a divergence zone or other area of extension.
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noun a narrow fissure in rock
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(graben) A valley caused by extension of the Earth
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