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third-person singular simple present clives, present participle cliving, simple past clived or clove, past participle clived or cliven
(intransitive) To climb; ascend. examples
plural clives
Burdock or agrimony. examples
third-person singular simple present clives, present participle cliving, simple past and past participle clived
(transitive) To split; separate; cleave; chop. quotations examples
After 'frosting' the stone may be 'clived' or split along the bedding planes. Once clived, the thin slabs are dressed for use and sold as Collyweston Slates, for use as tilestones.
1990, John Ashurst, Francis G. Dimes, Conservation of building and decorative stone: Volume 1
IL-1β presents the peculiarity of being produced in the form of a biologically inactive precursor, known as proIL-1β, that needs to be clived at an aspartate residue by a specific enzyme, named interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE) or [...]
2007, Robert Ader, Psychoneuroimmunology