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語源 1

Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.

名詞

rift (複数形 rifts)

1. A chasm or fissure.

   My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.

   The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.

2. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 130:

     I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.

3. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

派生語

• rift valley

動詞

rift (三人称単数 現在形 rifts, 現在分詞 rifting, 過去形および過去分詞形 rifted)

1. (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
2. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.

   to rift an oak

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt

   • 1822, William Wordsworth, A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)‎^[1], line 9-11:

     The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]

     he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.

語源 2

From Old Norse rypta.

動詞

rift (三人称単数 現在形 rifts, 現在分詞 rifting, 過去形および過去分詞形 rifted)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

動詞

rift (obsolete)

1. past participle of rive

   The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
   Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.

アナグラム

• FTIR, frit

語源

From Proto-Germanic *riftą, *riftiją, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /rift/

名詞

rift n (nominative 複数形 rift)

1. a veil; curtain; cloak

関連する語

• rifte

派生した語

• Middle English: rift