English-Thai Dictionary

rift

N ความแตกร้าว  ความแตกแยก  breach rupture kwam-teak-rao

 

rift in the lute

IDM ความผิด เล็กน้อย ที่จะ นำไปสู่ ความผิด ที่ ใหญ่ ได้  kwam-pid-lek-nai-ti-ja-nam-pai-su-kwam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RIFT

n.[from rive. ] A cleft; a fissure; an opening made by riving or splitting.

 

RIFT

v.t.to cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock.

 

RIFT

v.i. 1. to burst open; to split.
Timber - not apt to rift with ordnance.
2. to belch; to break wind. [Local. ]

 

RIFTED

pp. split; rent; cleft.

 

RIFTING

ppr. splitting; cleaving; bursting.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RIFT

RIFT Rift, obs.

 

Defn: p. p. of Rive. Spenser.

 

RIFT

RIFT Rift, n. [Written also reft. ] Etym: [Dan. rift, fr. 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.

 

RIFT

Rift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting. ]

 

Defn: To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.

 

RIFT

RIFT Rift, v. i.

 

1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber. .. not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.

 

2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot. ]

 

RIFTER

RIFTER Rift "er, n.

 

Defn: A rafter. [Obs. ] Holland.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

rift

rift |rift rɪft | ▶noun 1 a crack, split, or break in something: the wind had torn open a rift in the clouds. • Geology a major fault separating blocks of the earth's surface; a rift valley. 2 a serious break in friendly relations: their demise caused a rift between the city's town and gown. ▶verb [ no obj. ] chiefly Geology form fissures, cracks, or breaks, esp. through large-scale faulting; move apart: a fragment of continental crust that rifted away from eastern Australia | (as noun rifting ) : active rifting in southwestern Mexico. • [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. rifted ) tear or force (something ) apart: the nascent rifted margins of the Red Sea. ORIGIN Middle English: of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian and Danish rift ‘cleft, chink. ’

 

rift valley

rift val ley |ˈrɪf (t ) ˌvæli | ▶noun a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.

 

Oxford Dictionary

rift

rift |rɪft | ▶noun 1 a crack, split, or break in something: the wind had torn open a rift in the clouds. • Geology a major fault separating blocks of the earth's surface; a rift valley. 2 a serious break in friendly relations: the rift between the two branches of the legal profession. ▶verb [ no obj. ] chiefly Geology form fissures or breaks, especially through large-scale faulting; move apart: a fragment of continental crust which rifted away from eastern Australia. • [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. rifted ) tear or force (something ) apart: the nascent rifted margins of the Red Sea. ORIGIN Middle English: of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian and Danish rift ‘cleft, chink ’.

 

rift valley

rift val ¦ley ▶noun a steep-sided valley formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

rift

rift noun 1 a deep rift in the ice: crack, fault, flaw, split, break, breach, fissure, fracture, cleft, crevice, cavity, opening. 2 the rift between them: breach, division, split; quarrel, squabble, disagreement, falling-out, row, argument, dispute, conflict, feud; estrangement; informal spat, scrap. USAGE riff, rift These two are sometimes confused. Riff is now largely confined to jazz and pop-music contexts. It refers to a melodic phrase, usually repeated and often played in unison by several instruments; sometimes it's a variation on a tune, and it may be either an accompaniment to a solo or the only melodic element —e.g.: “With guitar riffs so rudimentary they seem to have been made up on the spot, ... the U.K. sextet played with rude ebullience. ” ( Chicago Tribune; Sept. 29, 2000.) The term dates only from the mid-twentieth century —and has little discernible relation to the older, mostly obsolete senses of riff (= [1 ] a string of onions, [2 ] the diaphragm, or [3 ] the mange; an itchy rash ). That's probably because this particular riff seems to have originated as a truncated form of the musical term refrain. Rift arose in Middle English in the sense “a fissure or divide; a split or crack ”—the meaning it still carries —e.g.: “Word out of Washington is that Bondra wants to change teams because of a rift with coach Ron Wilson. ” ( Boston Globe; Oct. 1, 2000.) Occasionally the term also refers to the rapids formed by rocks protruding from the bed of a stream. It formerly also meant “a burp ”—a sense long obsolete. Although the Oxford English Dictionary records two early-seventeenth-century uses of riff in the obsolete sense “rift, chink, ” the modern use of the word in that sense appears to be nothing more than rank word-swapping resulting from sound association —e.g.: “The way he sees it, things aren't bad at all. No riffs [read rifts ] between him and crew chief Todd Parrott.” ( USA Today; May 26, 2000.).Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

rift

rift noun 1 a deep rift in the Antarctic ice: crack, fault, flaw, split, break, breach, fissure, fracture, cleft, crevice, gap, cranny, slit, chink, interstice, cavity, opening, space, hole, aperture. 2 a rift between the government and the presidency: breach, division, split; quarrel, squabble, disagreement, difference of opinion, falling-out, fight, row, altercation, argument, war of words, dispute, conflict, contretemps, clash, wrangle, tussle, feud, battle royal; estrangement, alienation, schism; informal run-in, spat, scrap; Brit. informal ding-dong, bust-up.

 

Spanish Dictionary

rift

rift nombre masculino geol Fosa tectónica, normalmente alargada, originada por fenómenos de distensión de la corteza terrestre o hundimientos de bóvedas de pliegues de gran radio de curvatura .El plural es rifts .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

rift

rift /rɪft /名詞 C ｟かたく ｠1 裂け目, 割れ目, 切れ目 ▸ a rift in the clouds 雲間 （くもま ）2 «…の /…の間の » 仲たがい, 不和 «in /between » .動詞 他動詞 …を裂く, 割る .自動詞 裂ける, 割れる .～́ v à lley 〘地 〙裂谷 （れつこく ）, 地溝 .